The Current State of Onyx Apples

Hey everyone; this is something we've been meaning to bring up for a while now.
It's a bit of a touchy subject, obviously. It affects weddings, bossing, ''vote2win'' and other things.

As you've probably noticed in the recent months, we've been pretty aggressive with our nerfs to Cash Gachapon (while buffing Hunting Gachapon, in an effort to encourage playing to earn money instead of just voting for Gach to fund yourself. The other biggest offender would be Weddings. They are completely effortless, and nets you a guaranteed ~50m+ in Apples... if you don't crash, wasting your NX. This is something that we want to change or remove.
APQ is not being released in the foreseeable future, so it's not a solution. We've heard plenty of ideas/feedback about Apples and how they make bossing too easy/efficient in their current state.
How would you guys like this to be changed? What do you think of Apples as they are? These are some of the things/suggestions I've heard over time;
- Completely remove Apples, or at least until APQ comes out. They are too strong anyway.
- Have a NPC that sells them at a set (but high) price. Availability could be a problem.
- Make them drop from Gachapon in tiny stacks.
- Make them a drop from GPQ Bonus (Would require the crash during the transition to Bonus to be fixed)
- Have them available for some sort of exchange (Such as Pieces of Time?) or something that would require effort/farming

Let's discuss this in a civilized manner; I don't doubt that there will be some very varied opinions in the thread.