Mayor's Pass play

What a surprise to reach tier 38 in this latest mayor's pass season and find the final reward has been reduced from 550 to 150 sim cash. It seems like the latest blow in making the mayor's pass more about jumping through hoops for little reward and less about the activities of building great cities. 

I know I'm not alone in this view. Other members of my club have expressed their frustration -- both at that particular reward and at the increasingly convoluted rules for "earning" seasonal currency. Converting pumpkins into one of TWO currencies? Spinning roulette wheels from a season or two back? C'mon. It feels like a lot of jumping through hoops that seems to have less and less reward while distracting from the joy of the simulation that has attracted so many of us to the app. 

I understand the game changes and grows over time. The shift with golden tickets didn't make sense to me at the introduction, but yeah, it's fairly irritation-neutral. I still haven't upgraded the "new" country store and other additions to their full capacity, but I'll get there eventually. Change is life -- but this seasonal currency change's life needs to change into something less irritating or simply die an unlamented death.