.-. But... i mean... less than 50 exp per mini-tincan... that's negligible for veteran players like myself (as you said rank 206)

I see how it could be useful if i was new to the game, close to no gold, in the middle of an event i really want to do, a lot of units and little fooder (so i could squeeze the most exp possble) but right now i don't even care losing 500~ exp (1k at most sometimes) when combining for 8k since i don't have THAT many units to level up, and my gold never goes under 2M (excep when awakening was first introduced, silver leveling meant fooder and gold, and the awakening process itself consumes a lot of gold for each one), but now i wake(? 1 or 2 units per month if even, and whenever ravivals come i can skip them (or when i completed a star-rush) and go to farm fooder/fairies/dailies for more leveling

All and all i don't think i will be leveling my fooder unless they boost the exp given per level, and, in doing so, making it more noticeable