you are taking it a bit to far with the facts mate.
if, “Inflation, recessions, currency values” then it effect the whole bunch of things, life cost, rent costs for offices etc.
we are talking in a certain time frame which is here for testing a relatively new product.
In any business there are contracts which define things on which bout sides have to agree or terminate the contract, in some cases, there are penalties involved (you studied law, you should know that, as I recall).
When you are stating facts then do state all of them.
In this case, what can happen (but probably will not) Authors will start to remove files and when someone, for example, signs on Elements on a sale pitch that there are 3000 items and later on, they see 2700 items, how will you keep them?
And there is another thing, direct advertising for elements is much harder than for other Envato markets for authors. As your advertisings can much easier directly feed the competitor pockets.
The price can go down only to a point were authors say now this is enough, I am not making anything from this.
That is why ADP was implemented on TF and other markets here, to elevate the burden of pricing responsibility and shift it to authors and to get the overall pricings down, despite the sugar coated this is for the best for authors pr articles.
Elements is an entirely different animal. ADP is not possible here .
Imagine if Envato would, before ADP, keep on lowering prices.
They did not, they actually raised them, all the way up to a point when the issue of overpricing happened relative to competition and other factors, then the prices had to go down.
And the easiest way to do that, leave it to authors and watch the slaugther
In my eyes, elements in this form is doomed to fail, buuuuuuut there are other options, I was advocating a subscription model to authors portfolio option in the same way elements did basically you give an option on tf for an individual author to have its own theme club, its own little elements.
But time will tell, again I wish all the luck to Elements and authors on it!