or maybe people enjoyed the progression and the fact when they spent the time grinding for high level food it provided high level rewards. Majority of people play single player and this update made it very difficult and there is no reward because even if you spend the time to get high level foods and balance them to have both stamina and health you cannot combat high level enemies effectively.

I am not worried there will be mods soon that change this but i am sad the devs are heading in different direction. What makes it worse for me is that they did not learn and pickup some of the great projects that came from the moding community.