my view
slicing was so good that 80% of the people I know at the game took it, and if you check carefully, I bet that my numbers aren't way off what the people you know did.
that means that it was too good, true, now it feels pointless, but still, it's better they fixed the issue now, a week into the game and not in 3 months where the millionaires that was working just that would have been closing on a billion credits or something.
I think that in the long run it would make other methods of getting money more viable.