What happens with the people that already have their Novus or are very close from it?
I'm sure a lot of people will be almost done with the Novus quest by the time 2.3 lands, which will make the whole scenario give 2 alexandrites for free...many people will see themselves stacking a lot of alexandrites inevitably, which will completely trivialize the Novus grind.

The issue here is...maaaaaaaany people will be stuck with dozens of alexandrites, but the atma quest + the 9 books are still a massive brick wall...? Sorry but that doesn't make much sense to me. Wouldn't it have been more wise to reduce the grind from the Animus instead of turning the Novus into a FREE UPGRADE? Where's the sense in start handing out alexandrites for free when probably no one's going to bother going through the atma + books horror story again (unless you want to end up in a hospital).
It really makes up for a VERY annoying scenario...your inventory filled up with 100+
alexandrites whispering you *do the atma quest...or we have no use!*. SE this is very cruel xD.