Anyone else think it sucks that the new recruit a friend reward needs 8 gold feathers?

I've had a friend recruited forever and bought rewards before with gold feathers and now I'm just sat with 5 gold feathers.

If I had another friend that currently doesn't play that wanted to, I'd have recruited them by now. We should continue to get feathers and rewards for the 1 friend that we have recruited based on their subscription time.