Haha...I tire of following the game's updates and all the associated "discussions" so let's simply jump to conclusions.
If there were so many things wrong with the previous versions of the game, then the game itself should have stayed early access and not be officially released. Since I don't play this game at all anymore I am not sure whether to be happy for the recent changes, but they clearly came with great amount of oversights that mess with other aspects of the same game, so for those who are happy with the changes AND are defending them, sincere congratulations are in order.
I was hoping I could recommend this to some friends to play online and now I know, it won't be happening at least until -75% xD