Obsidian Shards and Balthazar problem solved
In an ideal world I think it would have been cooler if the need for Obsidian Shards served as enough motivation for players to come together and strategize how to most effectively capture the temple.
However, with some people asserting that bugs were involved that made it more difficult for some servers to finish the event and purchase shards (I can’t verify this either way personally, just repeating what I heard), I think this will be a good thing in many players’ eyes. If there were indeed bugs then I sympathize with those who couldn’t get their shards.