not a ton of experience in HD 3.0, but I had a potentially relevant moment in Naismith recruiting wherein my d2 team immediately went from moderate to very high to signing a player as soon as I offered the scholarship, when there had been a d3 school with high or very high interest and a scholarship offer already out.
Too anecdotal to be sure, but it seems to me like players value higher division play A LOT, at least compared to how they used to...