-edit: my maths were wrong It seems it takes 3 days to get a shrine(500 daily from voting). So this is not so bad. My only issue is the fact that masterballs are 10k. Also that craftable balls are sold on the market. This makes players miss out on an item they can sell.
The reason those prices are so high was because when the player base was so high, Miji set the prices at that since of the amount of players. It just never got changed since Miji and RomaDaddy are no longer staff and those were the 2 staff members that basically ran it. Myself being someone who was around then is probably one of the only people who can buy some of that stuff.