After watching a player streaming last night, I can understand the reasoning for the reduced probability of forging a T7 planet smashing hammer… he was ripping through Norkyna (T6), like it was paper, at a fair old rate of knots.
If that remains the norm, all I can see happening with the exo-worlds is that only a small portion of the player base will ever be able to gain any real benefit from them. Blocks don’t regenerate, resources don’t respawn, once they’re gone, they’re gone (blocks will only come back with a regen bomb).
As it is, with a rift hammer and an average mining spec I was one hitting single blocks on the new T7 world.