This is mostly true. Nobody is buying into breaks thinking they have a realistic shot at the 1/1 Wander. There are a lot of other cards of his that still would turn a huge profit, and are more likely to be hit. As you note in your last paragraph, the idea that everyone knows the Wander 1/1 got hit is foolish. I would bet maybe less than 10% of the sports card market will even realize that card got pulled for a while.
And in sports cards, "a while" is about a month, and by that time, you won't even see many Topps 2022 being broken, because by then, you'll have another half dozen products released by Panini or Topps/Bowman. Basically, a new product is released by these companies on a weekly basis, and the new products dominate the breaking market for about a week, and then the next one starts. Prices on these cards, or any cards, are at their peak in the 1st couple of weeks of the product release. After that, and as cards hit the market (Ebay), prices will come down, particularly on the base stuff (again, unless your name is Trout, Brady, Mahomes, Lebron, Luka, etc.), so the Wander 1/1 getting pulled will have no impact on pricing until pricing inevitably falls as it normally would.
