The sad part of it is that fixing the bronzium's issue is pretty trivial. There are so many easy ways to solve it, the problem itself, although CG has not stated it, is quite obvious, and so their choice to not fix it now either means that...
1. They haven't given it the 3 seconds of thought that would be needed to fix the issue, and will not, or
2. They intend to just either halve the cost or double the drops when/if they implement a similar gear economy change as well.
The second option is fine I guess, the first one not so much.