These changes are incomprehensible to me.
I might not be very coherent, but hopefully, you will understand what I mean.
1. They've changed the tournament formula, making the Tournaments and Spire really hard to complete (from a certain level/ province);
2. To mitigate the shock, we got military buildings;
3. We start to get (again) nice amounts of KPs;
4. Wonders' upgrading is **** up badly;
4a. Not everybody is lucky to have several Moonstone Library sets, therefore, a painful lack of CC and Spell Fragments appears at ALL players who are in this situation.
4b. One should refrain to craft in MA, to save the CC and SF for upgrades, this leads to lessssss chances to get the 500 Diamonds reward, and now, with these changes, also those annoying buildings but good candidates for disenchanting.
4c. Events become hard to complete and a total nonsense (from my point of view). Why? Because are too many quests asking to get Vision Vapors (meaning to do exactly what you wanted to avoid) and too many quests asking to solve provinces, get relics aso, which forces you to do something you wouldn't normally do, because you have no use for all those KPs. Same goes for FA. I'll be damned if I'll do a single Arcane residue badge in the future
All of the above bring the next questions: Why would one try to do more than minimum in Tourny, if, anyway, can't use those KPs? But if we do less in tourny, why all the fuss with extra 19 chests? Why should we be thrilled about buildings giving KPs?
Little questions that popped up in my mind and show me that no one at Inno has a general picture of the game AND that NO ONE is actually playing the game, to hit all these walls that we do. They make changes because they can and think that are good, they don't see all the implications that are arising from those changes. When players are pointing out what's not OK, they are too proud to accept they made a mistake, and they try to repair it (call it balance) with another change or addition which, ofc, leads to other problems, and so on.
Btw, the expression "it works as intended" is the one I hate the most in this game.