Love all the updates except that dozen deleting planted fields and the hire request restriction on getting offers. For me, the former isn't a big deal because I don't rearranbe my farms much.
The hire (don't recerve employment requests) seems to have greatly reduced the number of people in the market who change status colors. I might go to the market to hire someone for my farm, then wait to offer my services to others. That is impossible now without leaving no status showing, or continually reloadiing the market with a new status color. It is easier to say no thanks, or x out an offer to work.
If most poeple like the new way, I will learn to live with it.