They’ve spoken about it in the past: Tier acquisition should be a gradual progress and not the least possible steps away from getting it the same ID the raid opens. I’d rather increase token drop rates from 2 to 3 for 20 players (and scaled for other formats) as well as treating the super rare items as separate additional drops.
We had 3 tokens per boss and omni tokens for mythic raiding before. And in addition also bonus rolls. The catalyst should be the band-aid/alt catch-up it’s meant to be and can still function this way without looking like the sole solution to the result of reducing tier drops.
I suggested it in another thread already:
Use superfluous tokens as a way to get regular loot drops OR use them to charge your catalyst to get other slots converted resp. non-set item conversions.