that is such a disingenuous comment to make, to say the least.
even when magic stone was a necessity you needed a lot less than you need fragments now and even then you could consistently get 2 to 3 magic stones a week, on a single account, compared to one every 1 to 3 months of Arch Stone Fragment, not to mention Magic Stones, at their peak, costed 10m while Token was about 20m, right now Arch Stone is around 60m with Token costing around 40m, that is A LOT more Silver to account for its much lower drop rate.
Your comment is either evil, troll or a supreme lack of intelligence display.
The drop rates are set by IMC, if they so desire to make a necessity item, one that you need dozens of in order to progress, the rarest possible in the game, then so it’ll be. “The market” as you state it will only adapt to it and price it accordingly.
At current state even if Arch Stone’s aquisition rate was raised a hundred fold it would still be a hard-to-find/buy item.