If A-net’s ultimate goal is the make it so karma immediately enters your wallet like tokens/gold wouldn’t it have been more graceful of a change to make it so dailies/monthlies/bags of wondrous goods/event bags/etc. automatically give you karma similar to events rewards? There is no need for consumables which were necessary when karma was character bound.
Why not let people who have been saving up karma consumables to still get the bonuses that were available to everyone previously and just change the acquisition method? This way you’d alienate far fewer people than what you did with this patch.