Originally Posted by Vitani
Nobody but Larian can answer WHY though.
Exactly, and you can't expect for Larian to provide a public and detailed justification for every details. There has been plenty of proofs that Larian gather data and react to feedback. I really don't think they are changing things at random just to annoy players. There are most likely good reasons for those changes, reasons we can't fully grasp without all the global feedback telemetry data collected over the years. This forum is only a small and polarized part of this feedback after all.