I have to agree unfortunately.
This update felt a little bit sad to me, I was looking forward to coming home today after work to do my first class change with my new Spell Singer ^^ and that was so quickly taken away from me.
I understand your desire NC soft to make sure players are happy and that they feel progression.
But for those who want a faster pace lineage 2 where quest are streamlined and gear given to them, they have the "regular" servers.
I used to play lineage 2, 15 years ago, I thought it felt really refreshing to be able to play on these classic servers again.
Sure, everything is slower, xp, adena, walking ^^ but the seance of accomplishment and satisfaction for rewards are so much higher, because you worked harder for them.
You have a great opportunity here to make everyone happy, have the regular and classic servers so no matter your preferred play-style, everyone has somewhere to go~