Those larger villages use foken bots to do chores anyway and bots dont care about tediousness or monotony. I only want to make this game more enjoyable for actual human beings and don't give much shitte about big boys competetive tryharders who will use scripts anyway.
Probably not a direct analogy but it's like global pools, devs presumably thought this would prevent big factions from botting unlimited pearls and it kind of worked, problem is that they now get almost all the pearls and casuals get almost nothing, when before you could get decent amount of pearls with manual effort.