I think I can comfortably say that I sit in the top percentile of the biggest losers from this update
Am I happy to lose money? No. Am I upset? No.
The more I think about it the more obvious it becomes that what we see in our echo-chamber on X does not correlate with the wider playerbase.

No need to sugercoat it, yes for some trust is lost, yes some collectors will leave, yes some items will never recover in price, but this update will also create new collectors and new opportunities

I always told people that asked me what if you get banned? What if you get hacked? What if skins crash?

My reply was always, then that happens and so be it

This update taught me at least on a positive note that what I said was true. It is not fun losing a house overnight, but I willingly risked, I got to the point of being able to lose it in the first place by being here and therefore feel no regret, no panic, no grief

The people who will lose trust, the people who lost enough to go mad are people Valve have no interest in serving anyway - remember that

This update, whilst being the worst I have sat through will rebalance the economy and things will find its footing like it always does. The notion that enough trust is lost and the market will die is incredibly stupid. If the CS economy consisted only of skin nerds on X, then yes, different story. But we represent not even 1% of the market.

With the current widespread panic in the market I will spend the coming days taking inventory of what I have but avoid speculating.

There are with no doubt many skins that can be bought now at a much lower price than we will see in a few months, however, there are also many items that will continue to bleed. My only advice is do not attempt to recoup losses by further speculation.

To those of you who got hurt badly by the update, to those of you who were over leveraged, try to find the value in what happened. Reflect and adapt. Every single financial loss I endured thus far I would not take back if I could. Each time allowed me to rid of dysfunctional character traits, whether it be greed, unconciousness, envy, ego or whatever.