They removed them because you could get 80 fragments of either Sakura or Sasuke for like 600 coupons or something, they messed up & took the pack out.

There's obviously a lot of people who benefited from it though- this isn't even the problem, both those ninja aren't even that great, it was the 5 Kage Madara, Shisui & Deidara that was really the cake.