No citadels

Annuls don't annul a random mod, they annul the rarest mod about 75% of the time (creates scarcity)

Undocumented change to omens of light is found, and is patched in a day (creates scarcity)

"Bug" causing almost no fracturing orbs to exist persists for a month (maintains scarcity)

People figure out all of the flaws in this ridiculous league mechanic, it's patched immediately after a holiday weekend, twice (maintains scarcity)

The bone thrown for horrible drop rates on lots of things is rare tablets, but people report over and over that there are no citadels on their atlases (if you don't wanna pay 10 divs for rare tablets, locks you into the lower drop rates on blue tablets, creates scarcity)

Are you seeing a pattern yet?

To those who haven't found a citadel: Did you visit the monolith before you started looking for citadels?

I have the suspicion that citadels will not appear before you've been to the monolith once to trigger the quest and afterwards traveled a while in a certain direction.