People who trade and run mining factions have complained to me about this many months ago.
It's not only economy balance being ruined with it, but also a PvP one, since we have things like imbalanced armor upgrades given by admins and other nonsense.
@Alley events were ten time more reasoanble at that regard and gave the same amount of activity to the server.
And it's very hard to call me trade/mine or Alley fan.