Pottermore: You Fixed it Wrong

So that's how you fix things... Pottermore... why do you fail so much? 

Let me begin. This is bad. Pottermore should feel bad. Whoever "fixed" this is one of the stupidest creatures known to mankind. Now, here's the thing, Doxycide in its creation had a strategic niche that made it unique, you could brew  a good deal of them, and you even thought as far ahead to prohibit it from being sent to others. I daresay Pottermore, that was clever. But you know what the problem is? It was that Pottermore's potions are unbalanced. Potions were unbalanced compared to duels.

Pottermore central command

Pottermore, you are a disappointment. This move was so amateur, so stupid that it was almost hilarious. As has been phrased to me, "this type of stupid is an art". Truly I don't know how one could make a worse decision without having sustained copious amounts of brain damage first. 

Now, I know some of you may wonder what I mean by this, let us go over why for all points this was stupid:

The time has effectively been raised to 44-60 minutes for nine points. Wideye is 42 minutes on copper, sleeping draught is roughly an hour on copper. Antidotes as it stands are almost free and can give about 14 points in an hour, costing a pittance per brew given the massive amount of unicorn horn that you could buy. The ONE niche doxycide had, was that it was the fastest potion. It had an artificial limit  imposed by galleons. There were no good ways to break the limiter that was imposed, and it was an indirect help as it would encourage users to talk to eachother and help one another to keep brewing more of the best potion. 

The new brew times

Secondly, even though we can make similar gripes regarding Polyjuice, there is a decent reason given "Polyjuice is prohibited to brew at hogwarts, so it is not rewarded when you make it." No similar reason is given for the Doxycide increase ( though it's quick brew time makes some sense as it is a potion to deal with pests). Thus, there's no reason. No reason at all that this potion is being shunted so much, other than the complaints that I,  and other users had, that this was a disproportionately effective potion. the other potions had no similar update, and it seemed like this was the new "body bind" so to speak. A potion for us all to spam in order to brew more. 

So fix it again. And right this time. Users want:

1. Options: Give us potions with different traits and difficulties
2. Flexibility: a WIDE variety of times, so we can brew and come back. 
3. Reward: Points for the time and difficulty of the potion. Make this something where we can brew almost exclusively and earn a decent rate, make it a way to earn almost as much as dueling.
4. Cost-effectiveness: Cost should be taken into account when brewing. We have a limited amount of galleons and time. Make it something that's worth our time. 

It is well known that you respond to user concerns with the same grace as a band of babbling bumbling baboons. But we would like to think of you all as human, or at least a moderately intelligent monkey without brain damage. This was a failure, but you don't have to leave it that way.