New Root Abyss Equip Drop

Yes but if the prices of the equips aren't abysmally low, you have the following options:

Gain income by selling boss drops. You can use this income to improve your equipment.
You can purchase NX to improve equipment additionally.

What happens when boss drops are worth next to nothing?
You can purchase NX to improve equips, and that's about it.

Basically it cuts income away from players with them being so cheap.

Granted, a very small amount of players are benefiting from the drops, but still. It's unhealthy for the game.

However, maybe Nexon thinks that having this gear so "unobtainable" isn't good for the game, and isn't how they want it to be. I can also partially agree with that, but I still think if they were going to have it like that, they needed to consistently have it like that from the beginning.

CRA would have to increase to Empress level of supply and Empress level of demand for this to be the case. The only way CRA is going to get to that point is if (or more when) they release a newer set that outdoes what CRA does. So almost inevitably, this would happen anyways.

Why is Empress so hard to sell now? Well the market was already reasonably saturated, but more importantly, the demand for Empress has dropped significantly. Why don't people buy Zakum Helms or Horntail Pendants? Aside from the fact that the bosses are significantly easier to kill now, those equips are outdone by Empress and CRA equips.