I followed moon minerals since pretty much they started.

Greyscale did make a total mess - I mean rarity was kind of sensible to begin with as in the most rare (64) was most valuable. They let him stuff that up and replace it with another arbitrary most rare of his choice. They also let him stuff up several other features.

I would say though that it was more CCPs failure of oversight and management of his work that was the issue.... I mean at that Technetium change time CCP had a University Professor of economics on staff - how did he not notice the "blockage" being shifted from a rarity 64 like Dysprosium to Technetium? How did the producer (Unifex?) let the changes go live without realising the impact.

Worse still was not fixing the issue in a timely manner once apparent (alchemy? trololol). You can tinfoil hat all you like, but it probably simply comes down to poor product knowledge from the upper echelons at CCP at that time rather than some concerted effort to help favourites as you suggest.

At the end of the day anyway its just a game - don't get your knickers in a twist now about some poor changes some dev once made just because he's gone. That's ironically stupid.

Expected consequences
GÇóSome alliances will immediately start wanting to look for better space
GÇóIn the longer run, there'll be more conflicts going on, with more localized goals
GÇóNewer alliances will have an easier time getting a foothold in nullsec
GÇóCoalitions will be marginally less stable
GÇóAlliances will have to choose more carefully what space they develop, where their staging systems are, and so on (low truesec systems generally tend to be in strategically inconvenient places)