Removing it was the beginning of the end for card prices, I guess they anticipated SPS to increase in price a lot because of the change which then would help support the price of assets which clearly didn't happen. Splinterlands really is in a death spiral right now with Wild totally broken.
For real players like us who like to keep using their cards to play with, having collection power requirements in wild is no issue. It's only the value extracting players/bots that are affected. New players also are not negatively affected as they more likely are to play in modern where it's not really needed.