I've stopped playing due to the breeding failure. I was a paying customer too, so it really is a shame the Devs didn't just ask our opinions and then take our advice. The game may have sucked in the distant future due to inflation but with this solution they just brought the demise of this game a hell of a lot nearer.
Some people invest irl dolla in to this game and have been shafted. It does kinda matter that they don't leave or there'll be no more happy money for devs, only decay and shed snakeskin all round.
I was always under the impression lower evos were cheaper simply because they have the potential to be one of two or even three different shinies depending on your preference.
What'd be great would be if it was really easy to make 3x31s so that everyone could comp (free braces etc. up until this point), but really hard to go higher than that, so previous players still have some kind of reward for their loyalty (crazy expensive braces etc. up until this point.)