Traditionally, by farming Night City I can amass a collection of hundreds of 3 star colorless evo runes, in addition to a several 2 star colorless evo runes.

The past week or so, I've found it VERY difficult to even collect 10-15 of these by farming ANYWHERE. I've burned all SOT in Powerslave seeking 2 stars... I've burned all SOT in Night City seeking 2 or 3 stars. I've burned all SOT in BNW seeking either... yet I can't ever seem to collect any more than will allow 1 maybe 2 evolutions (12 or 18 respectively) at most.

In addition, now that Cosmic evolutions items have been around a little while, there may be opportunities to evolve some of them.. but I can't even come close to the 25/50 colorless evo runes necessary for that.

So.. have the drop rates for these items intentionally been dropped to prevent (or at least make it difficult for) users having enough resources to evolve Cosmics or other talismans?