Whacking Day Prize Box (with pics)

Would it have broken the bank for them to just make the rewards 1, 2, or 3 donuts? Are the useless cash rewards really necessary to put in? It's not like people are going to be churning these rewards out by the hundreds, and if you have 12500 snakes by this point you've already spent plenty of donuts getting there.

Every time I learn something new about this game it just feels like Scrooge McDuck is in charge.