Possibly the looming Hadad bombing runs....It's not a meta if everyone can get one for a reasonable cost. It's simply a new baseline. It's a rebalance, and it was badly needed.
Given Odyssey was entirely focused on surface gameplay AND the war effort benefits from it too, you should really be asking why this wasn't put in place two years ago so that people could actually get to, from, on, and off planets without so much dead time that Supercruise Assist became necessary.