Well there is some legitimate concerns but I do not agree with everything you say.

- MP cost. Sure, it does cost a lot for cure spells and it could be tweaked a little but overall if you learn to manage it you should be fine.

- Crafting. I like the changes they are doing. I get your concern with the books not being usefull but they did say they will be used for something else I believe. I do however agree that they could have left them there, just adjust the recipes that requires them at low level and maybe make it so lower level can start getting them at like level 10.

- Regional leves - The way it was before was just silly. I like how it is now, it's not too fast and yet you don't feel like you are out of options if you run out of leves. I don't want to be level 50 in 2 weeks, I want it to be an adventure all the way up. If people are really in a hurry they can do grind parties on top of leves.

Myself I have only time for leves and some behest here and there and I find it goes fast enough, it's a good pace and much more appropriate than it was before.

Yes I do agree there could be more adjustements to certain leves and they could add some different leves also but it's a good start.

adjustment to AoE. I like where they are going with this, I hated the fact that you can AoE or not when I first started the game. Sure I learned to deal with it but I prefer the have -ga spells

OR they can make it so you unlock the AoE abilitie for X and X spells when you reach the appropriate level?

targeting still sucks. Yeah, nothing to say about this.

For the rest, either I agree or have no opinions on so I will leave it at that.