I always end up getting way to many SRs compared to Rs, but I understand that doesn't hold true for every players, especially those you aren't really active off-events.

"Ultimately, the way I see it, is that eventually you'll always only get behind if you gamble on it. Sooner or later it'll bite you in the ass multiple times in a row, and you'll just never catch up and actually save anything."

That's statistically not true. Basically, if you go for a 95% success rate, you'll miss once every 20 attempts, but the other 19 tries will all save a little amount of materials, and those 19* little will be exactly equivalent to the materials you lost on the attempt you missed.

In the really long run, it's exactly the same. In the short run, it's less consistent, and you're in a situation where you can either high-roll or low-roll