It's one or the other:
Morthy posted it 6 hours ago - most of the US is asleep except a select few ^^ (who should really go to bed imo)
No one really reads the details of the update (and that includes me)
No one understood it really to complain...
and since now you're starting a thread on it, hell yeah, I am sure this new feature in the update will probably not be welcomed with open arms.
Though, what I did notice for the past few days is that I seem to be getting more item drops from jobs than say, 2 weeks ago.
I don't have stats to back that up but I get maybe 2-3 items a day compared to 2-3 items a week previously.
Maybe an attempt to balance things out before this change?