Tried selling an adolescent arcane apoterrasaur to see how much it would go for...400 beans. Dragons, which have a lower farming requirement, are much easier to get, and take the exact same time to grow (I checked) give 2k beans, five times as much. Hell, zygomites and yaks give twice as many beans. Who did this, and why? Like...I thought I was done being disappointed, but Jagex one ups themselves yet again.
So we'd gone for relatively low bean amounts on launch as these sit alongside the existing bean amounts you get. I.e you get the dragon AND the dinosaur, whereas before you would have just gotten the dragon OR the dinosaur. But we were keeping an eye on it to get a sense of how it feels.
As it stands we think the small bean amount was the wrong approach, so I'm now working on a hotfix to get more appealing numbers into the game which will make them more satisfying to sell on.