Okay, so that explains it. From what I’ve seen on the forums, Conan Exiles has been having lots of performance problems on consoles lately. Incidentally, this is also what Funcom is currently focusing on as their top priority:
That, coupled with the new revisions to the official server rules, leads me to believe that Funcom did not stop caring, but we’re all entitled to our own opinions and I understand that thing might look very different from your point of view than from mine.