Jesus Christ
Do you know the price of semi shitty 31 speed Aerodactyl before breeding was implemented? It was worth a shiny.
And a year later, breeding was implemented.
Do you know the price of a 5x31 pokemon when ivs were passed randomly?
It was ridiculous.
And a year later, iv passing was implemented
Do you know the price of a 5x 28+ ditto during clonemmo days?
It was extremely high as well
Pokemon getting consumed was implemented later as well.
Or do you know the drop prices of pokemon that became useless after physical/special split?
I missed a few more updates but you get the jist. The updates surely caused a lot of ups and downs in the prices of pokemon, but in retrospection all of them were necessary.
An update that benefits in the long run of the game is always better than having a stagnant game with a joke for an economy.
I'm very grateful that the devs don't poll the updates like OSRS that someone(or you?) mentioned earlier on this thread. As the polls will reveal the biased opinion of a guy who doesn't want his time to go to waste.
Let me tell you, they do care about their playerbase a lot more than they did in the past.
There is a lot more interaction between the devs and players than what used to happen in the past.