Hello there! Welcome to a general discussion thread I've made, with the help of members in the Breed-Only Beauties Clan Discord. This is not a suggestion thread, but rather us getting on our hands and knees and begging staff to do something about the state of BO breeding. It's been bad for a while, but with all the new traits released this year, as well as the boom in player numbers, it's been made clear it's getting worse and worse. Consider this something of an open letter, and all BO breeders are encouraged to participate.
For this thread, we are considering all Tier 2, July + August + NCL Exclusive Tier 3s, and Tier 4 markings as BO markings.

We're grateful for the increase in popularity that BO breeding has experienced in the past year with the new player boom, and breeding BO markings has turned into an amazing community that I've met some of my closest friends through. And yet, despite this new popularity and boom in BO breeding, it's in it's worse state ever. New markings rarely if ever spread, raffle lionesses disappear more often than not, and sometimes traits take weeks to even show up on raffle lionesses. As well as this, so much misinformation existed around around BO breeding to the point where Marking Opacity actually affecting breeding wasn't caught until April of this year.
To reiterate, this is NOT a suggestion thread, and is just a megathread for BO breeders to discuss their own problems with the current state of breeding BO markings.

After a long discussion, we've determined the problems with BO breeding can be boiled down to around three distinct points. These points are as follows:

Raffle Lionesses are bad at spreading BO traits
TL,DR: Raffle Lionesses carry the burden of distributing a marking throughout the entire site, and with the extreme increase of popularity of both Lioden and BO breeding, raffle lionesses are no longer a sustainable way to distribute new traits. BO breeders are the only category of breeders on site who have to worry about if the markings we need are obtainable.

Non-RL systems for BO traits are a gamble
TL,DR: The only other way for BO traits to be distributed in game are through either RMAs or May Groupies, which are limited to markings and bases and those traits only. There are no other ways to spread either new or rare BO traits, such as eyes or mane color, meaning we have to rely on these raffle lionesses to be bred and their cubs to be sold.

The current systems in place make hoarding BO attributes easy
TL,DR: Current systems for spreading new BO traits make it extremely easy for one person to just get lucky and sell the cubs resulting from it for extortionist prices, or just not sell them at all, cutting this BO trait off for everyone else on the site.

These respective points have been split into replies, to make reading and understanding them easier, and keep this thread from being a wall of text.

Any suggestions/discussion points I really like will also be quoted here, since I find keeping stuff in the main post is a good way to get people to read it!