Observation: since the badge drops from the alley have been reduced, the odds of getting one of the alley-exclusive badges is way lower, so now if you're spending loads of money and days on farming the exclusive badges, you end up spending tens/hundreds of thousands of happiness points and get, IDK, the butt badge, or any of the other ones that the player can just buy outright.
Also, I'm curious; mechanically, what does the three alley bag colors even mean? They don't seem to drop anything different from each other as far as I can tell.