What I don't like too much is that the minter is a private company that profits from this artificial scarcity.
You might prefer FFG (Fantasy Flight Games) Living Card model. Effectively, each new set that comes out, you can buy a full play-set (it was 3x for Netrunner).
Unfortunately, it's just hard to compete with the gambli---er--addicti---er-- BOSTER PACK model of MtG.
(I've played MtG for 24 years, very much invested and sad that it's a LITERAL investment, see https://www.mtgstocks.com)
Sadly, Netrunner is dead and the license lost, so not a lot of hope for new, official cards any time soon.
The community did pick up Netrunner: https://nullsignal.games/
I see MTG the same way I see any software I subscribe to, so the artificial scarcity bit doesn’t bother me a bit. I like MTG a lot and don’t mind paying, and I’m glad the business model lets them make new cards for me many times a year.
I’m also glad they do all the collector scarcity stuff because they subsidize players like me who just want draft boosters and the cheapest versions of the singles for my decks.