Numbers regarding how have Riot ninja-devalued the orange essence in the preseason patch

Salutations fellow Summoners and/or Rioters

Today I was looking at my loot table, wondering if I should upgrade some skins to permanent. But alas, I wasn't ready for what I was to find out. The orange essence value for disenchanting skin shards had dropped significantly.

So let's take a look at the issue here:

Before pre-season

• Skin shards disenchant value were higher. An example to illustrate: Corporate Mundo, a 1820 RP skin could be disenchanted for a total of 1050 Orange Essence, a 57,7% (rounded) of the total value if you purchased the skin with RP.

After pre-season hit

• Skins shard disenchant value drop way off the charts. For the sake of the argument let's continue with the Corporate Mundo skin example: With today's system, Corporate Mundo is equivalent to 364 Orange Essence, an astounding 20% of the total value (exact, not even rounded).

Effectively, we've (as a players) have lost a total of 37,7% Orange Essence of a Legendary Skin Shard. You would think that's enough, don't you?

Well, now is where shit is going to hit the fan. The total Orange Essence required to Upgrade the Legendary Skin to permanent is 1520 Orange Essence. **Thus, in order to Upgrade the Corporate Mundo skin, you would need to disenchant 4,17 Legendary Skin Shards in order to Upgrade one with the new system. Looking back at the old one, you would only require 1,45 Lengendary Skin Shards. **

So basically Riot has ninja-nerfed the value out of Hextech crafting. After changing the BE system into a RNG shitfest (which, with all respect it is, no matter how you look at it) Rito has devalued the Skind Shard crafting beacause.... Rea$ons? No, don't get me wrong, perhaps Riot was aiming to revamp the system or they have something behind the workbench regarding cosmetics and orange essence but this change, as it currently stands, can only be objectively described as pissing ON your playerbase.

What was the reason behind this? What was the purpose? And forget about PR bullshit Rito, you have absolutely no words to justify such a nerf out of the blue of the orange essence value. Even if you wanted to change skin shards disenchant values due to reasons beyond what you can explain right now, INFORM CLEARLY LONG BEFORE THE CHANGE HITS TO AVOID CONSUMERS' FRUSTRATION

tl,dr: I'am way, way to pissed about this ninja-nerf. I consider myself a thoughtful consumer who likes to be informed about patches and changes, but, to my disarray and frustration either I missed it or It wasn't clearly announced.

Rioters, please, feel free to elaborate on the matter, as I am certain more players are concerned about this matter