Please keep things civil, no personal attacks are allowed on anyone here!
The thought of possible license change in 2 years was interesting...the thoughts of getting a Yamato or Bandai DX toy without the insanity markups we are all so used to would be great, but we honestly did know what, if anything, would have happened, it was all conjecture.
Things simply go along being the same for the foreseeable future.
( I think I wrote this exact thing 20 years ago here and on alt.fan.macross when Toycom announced their HG issues with the then-new YF-19 toy at SDCCU.
Somethings will never change, ha! )