[MC-152773] "Too Expensive" broken at anvil (or nerfed...)

I seriously hope this is not a feature, because now at an anvil, repairing/combining anything that is over 40 levels is deemed "Too Expensive". Mojang, I'm trying to act as civil as I can here, but this is a little too much, okay? Why only 40 levels?

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Sonicwave 2019-05-24T06:57:13Z

The "more expensive" behavior for attempting to repair things over 40 levels is indeed intentional; see Dinnerbone's comments on MC-2307:

The more powerful a tool is, the more it costs to repair. From any tool that you get through "normal" enchanting, they will never be too expensive to repair unless you're under extreme circumstances (tool has 1 durability left and you won the enchanting jackpot).
Every time you repair a tool, it costs more to repair later.
With the above two facts in mind, it makes sense from a design perspective, to me at least, to have this cap. The more powerful a tool and the more you keep repairing it, eventually you just have to let it go and get a new one. We don't want the anvil to take away the need for crafting new tools and enchanting them; just postpone it.