Before I say anything else, my personal opinion is an increase in frequency rather than amount.

A lot of this has to do with immortal activity. More active immortals see more cool things and thus have the chance to reward more. Any given immortal can only watch so many characters at a time depending on what they’re doing themselves.

We have been somewhat low on immortal activity in the recent past (the holiday month of December plays into this). That activity is expected to increase. I think that’s the fix more than anything else. So I don’t mind a bit of blame there, we’re people too and the holidays like to steal us away as much as they do players :) .

As to your examples.
A – I already do this, I think others do too.
B – I already do this, I think others do too.
C – I’m not giving an imperial arial sword spec immxp for fighting an elf. No.

In terms of current characters, there are 8 with 1000immxp or more.
There are 18 or so with 500immxp or more.

All that said, I’m still of the mind that as immortal activity increases, this will naturally increase by frequency and that it won’t otherwise be an issue. If I’m eventually wrong, shame on me.

-Ish