The early access itself was an unmitigated success, I can think of very few things that changed during the actual playable EA that weren't changed for the better. The recent problems are from things that were NOT in the EA and have been implemented at the last second, many of which have alot of people (myself included) up in arms about it because we don't like them, they were never publicly tested and so far it seems like we will have no options to go back to how things were (outside of mods).