Buyers want to know the exact amount they are dishing out to buy an item. When they slapped unrealistic prices, it scared punters away and some probably still think they have to have the high protection fee for items. Sellers didn’t know how to navigate to the old system, thinking that every item requires £2.7+ for postage as ebay deliberately misleads sellers that they have to choose larger price because it has been give prominence on that area. Some sellers didn’t know that under £20 you can still ask buyers to pay £1 because they have to click this and click that. After you’ve done it, they hide the  postage box, like an imp pulling pranks, making seller work doubly hard. Ebay might have a death wish or is manned by millennials.