To me, shifting reliable acquisition of cores to purchasable bounties and away from randomly obtained bounties isn't solving the problem of cores being too scarce. It addresses the problem, sure, but in a way that could introduce (or for some amount of players exacerbate) a problem of not having enough resources to feel OK picking those bounties up in the first place. To be fair, we don't know how many gunsmith mats each of these bounties will cost. What I do know for sure is that I've dumped a TON of them into buying mods from Ada and infusing gear up to usable levels. Ada has given me way, WAY more radar tuner mods than I could ever hope to find uses for, but she's been stingy with some others such as rampage mods that I still want, so I want to keep trying to get them. That's where nearly all my gunsmith mats go already, and I'm not looking forward to slowing that process down so I can spend them on another pursuit that previously cost me nothing but game time spent completing them.