“Feel like that” sums it up pretty well. The reality is always extremely close to the 33% shard drop rate that’s been tracked and observed by hundreds of users before, regardless of what it feels like.
I’ve played this game for 9 years and Drop Rate Complaint threads have been around for the entirety of my SWGOH career. And they’ve all got something in common: they don’t contain data, they contain “feels”. Confirmation Bias is a thing, and most of us struggle to remember the days when we get more drops than anticipated but the days when we get less are permanently etched into our memory.
I tracked the drop rates on every character I farmed over many years and the drop rate over the duration of the farm ranged from 31% to 37% for absolutely all of them, with the overwhelming majority being 33%. If someone tracks their data and can demonstrate a reduced drop rate, then there’s a conversation to be had, but when all these threads contain is “feels” they’re just the same as all the previous threads of this nature.