Yeah, I thought this was a thread for discussing the system changes as a whole, not just the fact that Saltese is speculatively going down the tube. (:
Personally, I like all the changes - particularly the ones regarding new inter-house connections. It feels awfully hard to get around sometimes (see: playing GC in Kusari), so new interesting hole/gate connections are nice to see.
Also, I assume from the title that this is solely related to the independent worlds changes, and that the Gallia system cuts that I've seen planned will still be coming/previewed in another update?