Making the game harder is just going to make the casual gamer leave. The only ones left are the nolifers that spend hours daily in the game. The casual gamer group is larger than the people that can spend hours daily in a game.
This so called update feels like a step backwards. I just feel for me its now not worth my time. I know of others that are also stopping because of the way they are changing the game. I don't miss it at all, plenty of other games out there.
Not sure why you would want your inventory to be smaller. Bad idea and game ending for me. Our server will not be upped again. Just going to let it die. 100s of hours waisted in setting things up and adding buildings and all. Just for them to trash the game.