It makes sense from a profit standpoint. You need to refresh to get your top payout, you lose battles you would normally win, cost more crystals to climb and less free crystal income.
I'm leaning more towards, "they don't do arena climbs."
I don't begrudge them trying to make money, but they were probably hoping for a profit boost from the update that just dropped. That being the case it seems out of place for them to try to be sneaky about it - though the community is teaching them right now that if they do want to make money they need to be sneaky about it or risk the full fury of focused gamer rage.
Either way you slice it, fleet arena remains a sore spot for a lot of players and I wish they'd address it. I fear there's little chance of that now with how the update has landed.
