Implant removal was never free, even when they said it is! At least give that much back!
We had a few months of so called "free implant removal" but actually it was recovering your last upgrade only.
For example, you need 40k parts to do the last upgrade of a legendary implant. If you remove after that, you could recover 40k parts and you were still loosing all you used for the previous upgrades!
So it's not like the free removal was causing Plarium loose their income on parts! the only real free removal was applicable for lvl 2 implants (which you had made only one upgrade to them)
Now without that, lots of players will stop changing implants, and should stop using new weapons because changing implants are so expensive! In the end, we are not enjoying the way we used to, and Plarium also will sacrifice a part of their income over new mechs and weapons because of this extra cost! At the moment, Plarium thinks they can sell parts for upgrade, but they don't see that they will loose some players, and also some sale on new items!
That cheaper (it was not really free) implant removal was a good idea for both players and Plarium, and I hope they understand that soon