It’s nonsensical to have nerfed badges down to 200 from 500, yet introduce new single appearance items that cost 2k badges each, and increase the difficulty (albeit not much) of TW itself.
The 500 per alt quest was fine before and is especially fine now given the plethora of new items with ridiculous costs on the vendors now.
No, the optimal strategy being to have a bunch of alts do 1 dungeon each is dumb. Alts shouldn’t get that quest at all, increase the per-boss and completion badges some more.
The current set-up is just bad as it is still far more efficient to use alts even with the nerfed 200 per week over griding it out on one character - but I agree, the best solution is increase per-boss / completion rewards.
They could also stand to add a large amount of badges to the weekly quest (or maybe even have the quest offer a choice between a bunch of badges or the gear box).
The only reason I’m not complaining is I’ve used TW for years to level my alts up in the current expansion, and am sitting on over a hundred thousands while having already bought every mount, pet, and toy.
I ran 12 TW dungeons this weekend to level an alt to 80 and then get the dragon. Took less than 2 hours and I earned just over 1100 badges doing that. If I had just done 1 dungeon / alt over that same period I could have gotten another 2500 badges (3600), so in effect the dragon cost me 2500 badges. Single alt runs still being more than 3x more efficient (1800/hr vs. 550/hr) is pretty annoying but I don’tsee Daddy Blizz tripling the current rewards. Since the badges are now warbound there wouldn’t be an issue earning them all on a single toon so I’d be all for it. 
It is. Did they increase the number of badges from the first turn in to compensate? My sense is they want to make it more of a time sink.
no they buffed the end of run badges from 10 to 25. think that was all they did lol