u/Far_Sentence1244

They're effectively lowering all high-end skins and boosting low-mid tier to cover the capital loss.
This makes Steam Market viable with the $2k cap.
We saw it with gold trade-ups, now the next evolution. Same same.
In conjunction, removing RNG in terms of capsules and cases, where you now have to purchase via.... Steam Market.
You can no longer roll a high value sticker and sell 3rd party, you have to buy from SM.
Same with Terminals.
It's effectively crunching the market down, lowering high end, boosting low end.
Expect more coming, quickly too, as they are not slow walking this.
These are abrupt systematic changes.