I understand the announcement to increase the price of social coins, but I don't think teams realized that people who don't have social and are farming for season 2 would see the announcement and choose to leave PHAVER rather than buy a coin that doesn't seem attractive at the moment.

Optometrist with a fondness for data analytics and crypto

Phairdrop S2 focuses on $SOCIAL holders, and to prevent gaming the system, we’ve capped the 30-day average metric to be at most the current $SOCIAL holdings amount. 🛡 To receive the multipliers or the guaranteed $SOCIAL allocation in Season 2, the tokens must still be in user’s wallet at the time of the distribution. If you move the $SOCIAL out of the Phaver-connected wallet before then, you forfeit the multiplier and guaranteed allocation for the season.

It's probably more important to keep phaver users from leaving than $social prices, and even if social prices go up in the short term, it's just a band-aid that will make things worse.