Yeah, I agreed with a fee, for the sake of a gold sink and not making the market completely obsolete, but if the fee is anywhere near the inflated jewish prices of the market, it would be pointless still. If we also pick up any newer players, who will have to retire to make a MW, it will give them a chance to change their first MW's without being completely ripped off.
Btw those "550" offers on the market place consist of a bunch of bullshit offers too, which is one of the reasons why the market is and always has been cancer. 19 offers of Gold for 1 heirloom point by the same guy, all offers are massively bad deals. How many of those 550 trade offers are actually reasonable and don't involve being ripped off?. Most people I see using the market are arranging their reasonable trades in game, then putting the offers up. Other people are still just trying to make more gold out of it, inflating prices even more, that isn't healthy in a mod that is basically "undead" at this point.
And well, it's 2018, who the fuck wants to retire repeatedly for heirloom points or to spend weeks trying to find a reasonable trade that doesn't involve being ripped off, just because they want to try one of the newer items. Also, this is a way to encourage the newer items working their way into the marketplace, if you're that bothered about the marketplace.