The people upset were those who were upset at the announcement and more who expected something bigger. This is why I don't get my hopes up at anything until it's confirmed.

The 1/3 * 3 change would be a fix, because a lot of the complaints are about how much time it takes gathering favor mats. In my opinion, it's also a poor one because you would be maintaining the same expected rate while reducing the number of nodes you actually hit, i.e. much higher variance.

And as much as we'd all love to see the system entirely reworked, face it, it's not going to happen. The best we can hope for are bandaid fixes that will at least make it tolerable, and honestly that's all I'm asking for at this point.