Let me start off by saying: I 100% agree with every point you made.
The fact is, as you pointed out, the demand for 'unlocked' Reward cards is not fluid- in fact it will be highly static. Take an account with hundreds, or even thousands of BCX of SB Reward cards- their actual demand for unlocking those cards may only be, say, 3 Rare/1 Epic/3 Leg. With the cost being 10x, they may not unlock all of those cards but even if the cost dropped 90% (down to 1 DEC/CP)- they would never unlock more than those 7 cards.
I agree, there's no way we're actually going to get an new set in the next 4 months. My money would be on something closer to 14 months, TBH. Which is a shame.
With the new set, I believe SPL is in something of a "3 body problem".
- Can't create a new set until we grow.
- Can't grow until we get Gladiator cards out of Bronze/Silver.
- Can't get Gladiator cards out of Bronze/Silver until we release a new set. (see part 1)
I'm comparing them to Reb cards because those are the 'in print' cards. For the health of the economy, we don't want more cards on the market that undercut the value of those cards.