I don't have a problem with the proposal, but I feel like the impact will be extremely minimal. My guess is a large percentage of these packs will end up sold on the secondary market. Since there is no benefit to buying directly from Splinterlands anymore, packs on the secondary market essentially take away from primary sales.
It's all just a reshuffling of value. I won't complain if this passes, but I just don't see the benefit in spending time to rework this to give a little bit of support to DEC in exchange for hurting Rebellion sales/secondary value.
As others have stated, I'd rather see a complete overhaul of the leaderboard system in general.
I agree with you, I pointed out already in discord and also here that the saved DECs for 10 years in leaderboard-prices are roughly equal to the DECs payed for the Rebellion-packs in 30 days Pre-Sale.
So this impact is really very low and you in the past the DEC-supply reduce in the last monthes from month to month even this leaderboard-prices was paied out.
I don't understand why all should be rushed and we have not the time to wait for the result of the measures we already started.
IMO for Splinterlands it would be better to stay with the DEC-rewards and to sell this 40.000 packs through the official shop instead of adding them to the leaderboard-prices.
I also agree that a complete overhaul of the leaderboard system is neccessary, however this should be low priority and IMO only started when things like Land, Tower-Defense and also a rework of the brawls will be finished.
I think we cannnot explain that for example Tower Defense will postpone a bit more cause the team was working on overhaul the leaderboard system.