Does Survivor really need "currency" as its big new twist in a season featuring 20 winners?

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Jeff Probst says the addition of "fire tokens" as currency for the Winners at War season will make Season 40 more like the formation of a society. Fire tokens would've been intriguing in a normal season, says Andy Dehnart. But not in a season full of winners. "Imagine casting these 20 people and then thinking, They’re not enough. What this game needs is more advantages, more ways to protect the people I like, and something new and artificial. The truly exhausting part of these new twists—the fire tokens plus 'Edge of Extinction'—is that they allow the focus to shift from 'outwit, outplay, outlast' to 'outsearch for idols, outplay with advantages that destroy other people’s games, and outlast while not doing anything except befriending the jury.'"