I also do believe that the addition of gold loot might not have been the wisest decision , but removing it now would be a lot more chaotic & painful for the economy, the perception behind inflation seems a bit off to me , gradual and slow inflation is actually good for the economy as it promotes people to spend more gold , which increases the transfer of gold in between players .

And if gold loot gets removed now , it would be an ultra massive increase in value of the gold which those billionaire players have been hoarding on their characters inventories.

In general inflation is not always a bad thing , considering it is done the right way, where both the rich and poor income also increases fairly