It worked well for me today too and good thing that they fixed it before spins got expired.
Basic rewards got lower because Bitcoin price went up. I think it's not bad to get 30 Satoshi or lottery tickets without doing anything. It's more about that higher tier rewards become more rare. It's been a while since I got bigger reward from WOF, maybe month or two ago. Back when they introduced it I was getting 500/5000 Satoshi probably few times every week, once got 50 GT. But later they changed something, probably to reduce costs and big wins become rare.
Yeah, in the early days when Wheel of Fortune was launched, the chance of winning prizes like 5k sats/RP was indeed much greater than it is now. At that time, users could quite quickly collect both 30k sats for minimum withdrawal and 100k RP to exchange for sats. Obviously, such generosity couldn't be long because freebitcoin is primarily a business project that should bring income to its creators, not a charity fund that gives out BTCs to everyone.