It used to be that the expensive seats subsidized the cheap seats. You have a corporate sponsor come in and pay what amounts to $200 a seat in a $125 area so the team can offer some $10-50 seats in other areas and still turn a profit. Or they pay for the giveaway tickets. And there was goodwill from both the company's staff getting to go and the occasional donation to civic groups. But the pandemic changed everything. Many corporations are sitting in huge buildings where people don't come in to work anymore, it's remote because we don't want to go back to how it was. The culture has changed. After sitting at HOME all day, people don't really want to get out and do like they did, body at rest tends to stay at rest, you know? Where people used to plan out their evenings to attend games, church, school functions, etc., they got out of the habit and started watching games and church online. So why offer the perk if people don't appreciate it? And if the corps aren't paying the premium prices to make the cheap seats both available and profitable, the team won't offer them.