I agree about the Nutcracker thing just being a mistake. That being said, plenty of effort is going into this game on the part of the devs. They did create an entire box full of items, and a new catalogue and new content for us each week. FAR more work goes into this game than Candy Mania or whatever.
What we are questioning here is the taste of that content. that is all. IT's art, so it is subjective, but it seems like a lot of people really disliked this weeks box items, except for maybe first place, and some people didn't even like that.
So what I'm over is the ugly and boring update. Because I know there will be exciting and beautiful content updates someday again. Those are the ups and downs I was talking about, in the art choices. Now if their LTO prices skyrocket again, I'll be back to being an unhappy camper. But if they give us steady content, and I like at least some of it (say half?) then I'm good.