As you got even higher in levels you would get even fewer available bounties.Player feedback was that those at level 234 were short changed with 5 instead of 6 bounties. Now with 6 bounties restored, the elite bounties only give 28k XP when before the update I was getting 140xp from it. Also ostera bounty gave me 91k XP but now the Beltane bounties only gave me 28k XP. I find it laughable that muldar said the change was in response to player feedback. Please do not insult us.
You will still be able to get the 140XP bounty but there are additional Elite bounties that while lower in XP will give you a higher chance at bounty tokens.
While there is the downside of a seemingly less XP bounty one of the main player feedback points was the missing out at chances of tokens.
This also gives you a chance of XP previously not gained from the missing bounties.
As I have said this is still being reviewed by the Design Team.