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Yeah, I think Wizards heard "it's too hard to maintain a collection for Standard" and took that to mean "cards need to stay legal in Standard for longer", when the actual takeaway should have been "cards in Standard need to be cheaper and easier to acquire". But "cheaper" cuts into their bottom line, and "easier" is something they have only indirect control over.
Limiting rares and mythics sounds great to me. I keep thinking about how I'd like to play a format with only commons and uncommons -- in other words, only cards with a reasonable power level. They won't do it, of course, because, again, the bottom line.