According to this post:
90% of what I said is not true so that must mean that there are some hidden patch notes or things (like a constantly wiping universe) coming up that we have no been made aware of yet (unless I missed them). He tells me to just see so that must mean that they have a solution already or at least in the make. So we don’t have to worry about the drills anymore.
I see that more players are drawing the same conclusions I did and I know that some factions were hoping for Rex/devs to not see this problem (the ones that see it would be epicly mega rich then).
But it is not great for us that we see new features and we only get half the picture. So we draw the wrong conclusions. The drills apparently are not an imbalance and probably get some more changes between now and 5.0 or another ‘fix’.