I concur with your general summary Kaelie. Not everything HAS to happen in my lists. But most need to be considered in a developer meeting. They are missing some key economy things which cannot be overlooked IMO. And as you said the biggest gate right now is the number of rare gathered tokens required. Even if they fix that part though the economy is going to be a mess till other adjustments are made.

Also I agree I could live with 9 tokens a week... but what a crappy low gate IMO.