My take on it is this...
The game was put out in easy mode. This attracted a lot of players for bug fixing.

Now they updated the game into hard mode. I guess it is fine as some people are saying they don't even notice a difference.

IDK I gave up playing.

I hope at some time in the future they let players choose to adjust some things between the two extremes we have seen so far. But it is up to the devs to produce the game they want to make.

I guess you can mod the game, I don't mod... but some people even before the food and stamina nerf were modding stamina out of the game since it was difficult enough to manage in easy mode.

Anyway I wish them luck, tell them how you feel and just go play another game if it bothers you that much.