I doubt it would happen again, only if they would chose to exclude breeding from that or maybe after release of ARK2.
Farming ressources on non Genesis Server or Abberation for Metal, is just a hastle. Even with Stryder it takes way too long to farm a good amount of ressources. Lets take Metal on Island as an example, you probably farm less in 60 minutes than someone on aberration in 10 Minutes.
And tbh except farming dedis full of ressources and breeding some color combos - there isn't anything else to do anymore. All major Dino are at top stats, even some Gen2 Creatures. People have thousand or hundred thousand tek stored, because its faster to farm for tek structures than farming for stone.
People chose to rather build and maintain a Gacha Tower for element than raising dino to do bosses - Because in the 4 days a rex takes to raise, you get more element through that gacha tower than doing 10 bosses after those rexes are ready.
Almost all PvP Modes have higher rates 24/7 so why not atleast giving their majority of players higher rates on weekends? Performence isn't a reason, since Gen1 and Gen2 server are like sh*t even without events.
So what reason is left? Stubborness - Yes. I remember when WC tried to give us an Evo Event with better crops, higher recipes and such things. They got such a hard poopstorm they changed it on day 1. They've been sulking since then and we've got less and less Evo Events, especially Evo Events with breeding. (Evo events on first year of corona not included)
But as ced always says "You're getting heard!" - Yeah no...not regarding evo events or other things.
Lets take RMT as an example, there's an "auction" site where you literally can shop dino and such líke things on amazon. WC should have enough influence and money to take down said site or atleast make them stop providing a plattform for ARK stuff.