I never liked EW RNG on the card.Astrodyne was crap and the RNG on symbol for getting the maxbonus even more.
But i admit i was skeptical about the AST rework at first.... Now i really like it and i have ton of fun with it.

I can now effectly plan on when to use my cards and on who, it's a blast to think about that instead of draw-redraw-discard-draw... etc...