Datacron Set 4 + Feedback Response Information [MEGA]

It's not clear to me what exactly this new cadence means. For starters, it hasn't been farm for 1 use for 2. It's been farm for 1, use for 3 with the latter 3 overlapping with the former 1. I assume they aren't going to handicap whales by not letting them use what they bought on day 1 for another 2 months, right? So I assume what they mean is that they are extending the farm period to 2 months and the use period to 4.

Since the farming period has been doubled, does that mean we will get twice as much of each set (i.e. same acquisition rates) or have the acquisition rates been halved such that we get the same amount of materials in 2 months that we used to get in 1?

If the former, cool, I think. Whales will still have all the goodies before f2p, but f2p will be able to get a fair number of goodies before the farm period ends. Probably a slight leveling of the field relative to now.

If the latter, then DCs are going to increase the competitive edge gained by whaling on DCs relative to now. And since I'd argue that edge is already massive, I don't think that is needed.