Maps being nerfed?

[Conundrum]

I've been repeatedly doing quite literally hundreds of level 80 maps for shell leather with my FC. I'm not even joking, we've done a hundred-odd of them now.

We made it to the end ONCE and not a single one of the maps has dropped a single thing of shell leather. It's insane. I am curious if they've done something.

Well there was some discussion a week or two ago about retainer ventures being noticeably nerfed. They now drop a lot fewer venture crates which of course drop dyes, the obvious logic there is more mog station dye sales.

I don't know of anything the bean counters have to gain by nerfing maps, they don't compete with mog station...unless you stretch it to say the items crafted with map drops compete with mog station outfits.