You said that you have listened to the community and therefore are doing the changes to the inventory system. What community? Some streamer who occationally plays the game, perhaps? I haven’t seen any requests for these changes ever anywhere. All they do is mess up the game, UI and make everything frustrating. There was nothing wrong with the old system as almost everyone everywhere is trying to tell you. The quick stack was the only good thing.
So could you just forget about making the game worse? Don’t mess with things that do not need fixing and focus on improving the gameplay content that has gone stale years ago. There’s no challenge in anything anymore when you implement different ways to give everything to players from the start without having to actually play the game.
My main issue is the fact that everything is so easy these days. You get explosives and weapons just by running around the fortress naked. You get all of the meals and other foods from chests so you don’t need to go out to the world and find the recipes. You can knock out T4 thralls with two combos and break them in one hour! Where’s the exitement and fun in that when you know you can get an army without no one being able to stop you? You are taking so much away from the gameplay experience that it’s become boring. We used to play multiple servers actively for years but now there’s no point in PvP anymore with not being able to build against raids thanks to snap-on bombs and flying bats. Everyone has their inventories full of everything thanks to 4x rates, all we do now is keep a couple of bases alive on PvE servers just to see what you destroy/break when a new season starts. Then we check it out for a couple of weeks and that’s it.
You have reduced the best survival/PvP game to a roleplay PvE building simulator.