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as someone who has done economy break downs for games like eve/archeage/UO and more this couldn't be further from the truth and incredibly inaccurate. if you're looking for a reason why pre existing items are losing price and new items are gaining price you can look no further than supply and demand. as for items you call "god tier" a new item with scarcity in mind should always be incredibly expensive and only available to those who are actively farming them. it's always been possible to buy bd and wd summons which on summon give you dragon mats. X grade or close to cap stat celtics have been in gacha forever and this was almost *on release* demonics were immediately in gacha the moment they dropped and were easily farmable, you might be confused with crafted-demos which are much, much harder to obtain.
i'm telling you right now the demand for equipment hasn't stagnated and neither has the supply in most but not all cases, there will always be a new exciting item that'll have a high price but as soon as that demand drops and scarcity is outweighed then you'll find them settling; which in this case has happened. none of the items you mentioned are on a down trend, they've stayed consistent for arguably 1-2 years. the only items that have dropped considerably in price are divine equipment(s) because of a spur in girgashiy runs which was only momentary.
also on your final note, bard has and always will be the strongest defacto talent and a must have for anyone pushing anything above mediocrity, it has been this way since the rework and not music q, music q was qol and had nothing to do with the power level of bard. ALL endgame equipment worth talking about is made through crafting if you didn't know, literally all of it. the only things you could make an argument for are true xgrade celtics which were in 1 gachapon as for the rest of it; top rolls can only be achieved through crafting.
