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That is patently false. The placeholders expanded in width to accommodate the size of the number, and I have screenshots to prove it.
The change caters to intellectually challenged players who have trouble reading more than a few digits at a time without comma separation.
First of all, there's a huge difference between expanding the size of the placeholders once and expanding it multiple times. There might have been ample freedom to expand them once so it was easy and quick to do. There might not be enough freedom to do it multiple times so further expanding can be an issue for the game to display on other devices. Second, even if it's expanded now it doesn't mean that players won't reach even greater numbers in the future and thus leading to further need for expanding that bit of the design in the future. So expanding is only a temporary solution and the devs need a permanent so they won't have to bother themselves with such details every few months. This is where this solution comes in, it solves the issue once and for all.
Third, there are many people with certain disabilities or health issues for which reading long numbers can be troublesome, and this game is advertised as family-friendly, meaning kids are allowed to and indeed play this game. This change helps all of those groups, which do play the game just like yourself, be able to easily read their resources. It helps them and it doesn't harm anyone else in the process.
Lastly, if your complaint for this feature is the fact that it helps people who may have trouble reading long numbers, I'll just stop replying here. Unfortunately for me, I have accepted a position that requests from me to be polite and respectful as much as possible. Boy, my resignation can't kick in soon enough.