We can complain about the changes introduced by Larian, however, they dont change the rules just for the sake of the changes. They just try to adjust the rules so that people don't get discouraged in the very beginning.
Discouraged by what exactly? Atm the miss chances are still really not much better than Tabletop courtesy of height advantage/disadvantage (which I am more fine with btw) and how often you start in a shit position. So your average Joe is just as much discouraged as before. If he can figure out that scouting and starting in a good position is the way to go, he also can work out how a random number from 1-20 plus another number works.
They fear that a person just flips the table on a game of monopoly just because he was unlucky and got to jail in round 1. And yes, those people do exist, but the question is: would monopoly be a better game, if you design it in a manner that this cannot happen? I'd doubt that.
