Dude, the whales are pissed off. They spend legit a lot of money to get to 85 or higher to 7 star Cassian, and now a lot of players who got to 5 or 6 stars but not into the 80s on the levels just got all those materials (which you can only get through whaling AFAIK) for free. The advantage the whales had was flattened out with this move, all because CG can't use a beta client to test live updates before pushing them out to the general playerbase. Stuff like this would have been caught very quickly by a small group of beta testers.
I'm just an episode pass dolphin, so I have no dog in this fight. I went from 70 to 75 for free. Good for me. I shed no tears for whales, but they have a legitimate point here.