I am recently coming back after a while myself. I last played a bit before caves came out so both caves and mistlands are new to me. I started a new map since my last save had areas where i already found that cobwebbed trees "this is supposed to be mistlands but it doesnt exist yet" placeholder terrain. So far Im only in bronze age dipping my toes into iron (if i could find more than one crypt i might say im actually iron age) on this new world and already i'm noticing what seems to be subtle but sweeping changes and I genuinely can't tell if i am misremembering either or if those vaguely mentioned "rebalancing updates" made overall changes. Some things seem to spawn a lot more than i recall (leviathans and black forests mostly in my current seed, and i have trouble believing abominations are "rare" spawns when i can find 4 in one trip in the same tiny swamp that only had one crypt...not that i'm complaining there, their armor is quite nice), some things seem to spawn a lot less (havent bumped into a serpent yet, and seen only 2 oozers this whole swamp expedition, and I went on a 6 continent quest for a meadow large enough to actually get bees finally, but hey i found my trader over it so win!) but i also dont know if maybe i just got a weird seed to since i chose a random one.

Stamina does seem mildly more annoying but i honestly figured that might be because my last character already had maxed sprint/jump skills so maybe i just felt sluggish by comparison basically. That hasn't seemed too bad for me at least, or at least not as bad of an adjustment as when they rebalanced the food and health/stamina systems overall.

Comfort has felt like i'm getting slightly less than i should be as well, and that the yule tree i currently have just compensates, but that's another where im not sure if i just have memories of a time i was spoiling myself late game or if that changed to.