Golden Trail Series Kills National Series

This story has been floating around on German trail websites. The official Golden Trail Series website hasn’t been updated to reflect this news. I translated the quote from the GTS to the German participating events:

Dear Trail Community,

Over the past three years, we have experienced fantastic sporting achievements, hard battles for podium places and great sportsmanship as part of the Golden Trail National Series DACH powered by Salomon.
Unfortunately, the national offshoot of the Golden Trail Series will no longer continue next year.
In the future, we will devote all our attention and commitment to the Golden Trail World Series powered by Salomon, which is also expected to include two races in the DACH region.

Thank you for the unique moments together in the National Series and we hope to see you again as part of the World Series!

Your team of GTNS-DACH

I assume this means that Golden Trail Series is closing down all national series events and increase their focus on their one World Series, maybe increasing the number of races as part of that series. The Golden Trail Series was a unique concept in the trail world with these national series event feeding into the global series. If GTS is indeed changing this up, does that mean they are taking inspiration from the UTMB World Series and just build one big series focused on short trail races, or did Salomon decide that they saturated the market in Europe (they also dropped sponsorship of Mont Blanc Marathon) and are relocating their money? In any case, this is a bummer for the events managers and racers who had been putting on these events for GTS/Salomon and it will be curious to see how and if participation in these events will drop over the next couple years.