Instead of complaining, I will offer another piece of constructive feedback.
Myself and other used to maintain VIP status for the VIP benefits (Brez, EXP, Brooch, Talisman and Agathion Bracelets). You thought it is better to take all of that away. Ok, your business your decision. I don't have to spend money anymore, because, well there is no need to spend money to maintain VIP.
What would help me though is to see a forward looking 3 month roadmap. For example, if you could give us something like this:
April 1-14 EXP Event and Agathions
April 15-30 No event
May 1-15 Talisman Event
May 16-31 No event
June 1-15 Hat Event
June 16-30 Pendant Event
By seeing something like this, I know when I would need to save up discretionary funds for the game and when not to. Also when you have the events, if you improve the odds of actually winning I bet you would get more people spending. Remember hard core gambling isn't exciting to most people on Classic. Give us more of a return on what we could spend, and we would spend more. That way we have gear for our mains and boxes.
Just ideas out of my little brain.