Honestly, and I know this wasn't as possible from a design standpoint:

Yoshi's big mistake was doing FC first. They should've held out to do personal and then reveal FC after. Hitting everyone with daunting prices and ages to go until personal is even worse than having everyone just wait till personal, it crushes their souls in a way. I'm not defending Yoshi, or peoples reactions, but the fact is if things were going to be this tough it shouldn't have came first at all, that's the big mistake.