Are the currently up banners bait?

Oh, young grasshopper, heed these words:

All banners are bait banners.

....I mean...

Practically every banner is made with the sole purpose of baiting players. lol

Yes, everything between now and CYL is. CYL itself too. And also everything afterwards. How else are they going to get your money????

I definitely think they're trying to put a lot of pressure on our orbs. With the reruns, this is more banners than I think is usual.

In any case, it's important for us to figure out how many orbs we want to save up and for what. I was working on that today and figured out that I might not actually need more than 220-270 orbs for CYL unless I want multiple of at least three of the units, which seems unlikely to me. The only of last year's CYL heroes that I would want multiple of is B.Ike, and then it's better to pull for him in a 3% banner or in some other banner where there are other units I want (ex: legendary banner).

Once we have our own benchmarks figured out, we can decide whether or not we want to trade what we're preparing to target for what's being offered to us today. They can bait all the want; I get more free summons and I fire where I will get value. I think I can come up with around 450-500 orbs by the time the next legendary banner comes around, and I don't know what other banners are coming, so I'm delaying any summoning until the next schedule appears. The only banner that interests me right now is the banner with chill spd and atk/spd bond, and this one should definitely still be around when the next schedule comes.