No flaming here but you have some errors in your facts.

There is not enough captive bred normal babies to supply the demand. If there were, breeders could not sell their babies, and typically the big breeders sell out of their normal babies each year. The number imported is much higher than 50K.

Also, the smaller breeders that do have issues selling normal babies don't band together to have a mass amount to sell to larger stores. The larger stores want a large supply, and not to have to pick up a few snakes here and there. If someone went around gathering all the normals and sold them in a large group, a lot of normals would be sold to stores.. oh yes.. that's called a 'buncher' or in some people's terms a 'flipper'.

The pet store prices have rarely, if ever, had anything to do with the market price of ball pythons, especially the morph prices. The difference between $7 and $20 is not that much when they sell them for $80 and more. Many smaller stores DO buy locally produced normals for resell, mainly because they are usually fat eating cuties, without having to worry about parasites, feeding issues, or other health concerns.

According to the scientific studies done(and already quoted on this site in places), the ball python population is not only NOT decreasing, but is increasing in Africa, mainly because the ball python thrives in farmland type habitats. Since people are clearing wilderness for farmland, they are creating MORE habitat for balls, and increasing their prey of rodents.

Also, the 'captive hatching' way they harvest is a bit better way than collecting babies out of the wild.

You won't be able to import ONLY the cool snakes and not the normals. So no new morphs from the wild populations. And there are new morphs coming in every year. New bloodlines of established morphs could carry hidden genes as well, when they turn out to be not the surface gene.. but something that looks similar, but actually produces something quite different.

Other than the potential new morphs, I don't think that I would miss imported baby ball pythons. But I see many issues with banning the import, since it would easily spill over into many other areas. I would rather cut the NEED for imported normals, by trying to convince breeders and stores to do business, thus cutting the NEED for cheap imported normals. That way it's not outlawed, we still can import the snakes the hobby wants, but the wholesale normal baby numbers go down and we get the benefits of selling CB babies to the stores and thus to the consumer.