Everyone is really REALLY missing their intention here. It's blindingly obvious that they're simply trying to extend the economic life of the old philosophy materials as long as possible because they havn't come up with an adequate replacement yet. IE "X item you can buy with easily farmable tomes that arent really used for anything else" situation(The myth materials arent relevant because too many people are still dumping myth into animus/novus). They want to keep the philo mats(coke, peacock ore etc) marketable as long as possible, that's simply it. End all, be all.