Why the Secret Spell Scroll system would have never worked.

Yeah, before they were.. brown(1 or 2m), silver(5m), and gold(10m), somewhere around there. Then they released random quantity sacks with WAY higher meso counts.

Not really WAY higher.
The "up to" amounts advertised were never meant to be reached or even approached. Extracted data showed that the average amount these bags were made to give were pretty much the same as the old kind.