For your consideration

"kalidor;c-1699061" wrote:
It's not because they removed them from challenges that you're running out. It's the massive imbalance between the usage of the various +36 gold gear as assigned to heroes by the devs that's the real issue. No one has ever complained about running low on the medpac or keypad salvage (the other gold challenge gear). The devs are massively overusing the gold orbs - both as regular gear and as g11+/12+ components.
Unfortunately adding them back into tank prize pack won't make much of a difference unless they substantially increase the amount of salvage you get. There's so many prizes in there that the chance of you getting a drop makes it a very unreliable source of gold orb salvage.

I ran out of them long before. You mean -taken out of raids- right? Prototype is still in the challenges.

You are right about the gear distribution in design. But that's very much by purpose. That's how they create bottlenecks like carbanti. A quick investigation into swgoh.gg gear lists makes the lodsidedness very evident.