The populations were dropped a couple betas ago, which effectively does make units more expensive.
In a sense, but even if you take a 2000 pop province and split it in half (1000 pop per side) that's still a ton of troops! I do really like the pop lowering though as it means shorter more focused game play (no 45 minute long slugfests like when you have huge pop provinces).
I'm not a fan of a global increase in production (it is beta so maybe larian can try it if they so desire, but I personally don't like it). I still think more troops per 'counter' in the TBS map is the way to go for cutting back on spam as it's harder to counter a big army that's already there with spam. I've expressed my points on the fine details of that topic plenty so I wont bore everyone by repeating them again.
