Things change, people get angry... but the changes were desperately needed.
1st off, hooray for lowering the gold/xp provided by priests and angels. Sure, there is a right time and a wrong time to upgrade minions, but now choosing the wrong time is not an immediate spiral to rapid and complete destruction.
Second, good, the Heart of Life is an artifact now. It easily provided the greatest way to disrupt an equal game. Now it is reserved to an end game, "OK let's hurry this up" role like all the other artifacts.
Thanks for fixing the Idol abuse. Minion + damage items could be a little over the top mid-early game for a general build when some guy is running around with 4 siege and 4 priests.
Now just come out with the demo already. Once people see how competitive this game can be, and with the promised "coupons for friends" maybe we can get this community going full tilt with some new blood.