There are situations where limited refinement is better and situations where is not. Lets say you have a rank 7 item you weren't able to level up when last limited refinement was up (like happened to me that i reached 188/200 that, after the event became 138/200 due to the disappearing of the wish credits). In that case you want to get the advantage of the fact you c*e medium refinements on other items to get 20 free adv.runes. If you do it two times, without leveling them up (lets say bringing 5 level 4 from 0 to 20 and 3 level 5 from 0 to 34) then you can get something good out of both without losing anything on long term planning. But, yes, personally i think the rewards from that rebate are a bit low. 2x as many should be more appealing.