My whole entire clan quit the game yesterday because of the new movement! WOW

[CodeMage]

How can I know that the changes are not necessarily permanent and that Funcom might tweak them? Perhaps because they bothered to ask for feedback:

Momentum-based movement - Feedback thread

Hey y’all, Yesterday we released one of the biggest patches in the game’s history, adding not only mounts, but many overhauls to some of the game mechanics that remained unchanged since launch. One of them is the new momentum-based movement, which adds acceleration to the player movement to create more meaningful encounter situations in which each movement counts and requires a conscious decision when engaging. As any big change to a core mechanic, this will be received differently by each ki…