There's a lot of changes I appreciate, though sometimes I feel they can be a little heavy-handed when they try to address cheezing progression. We'll see after it launches if this update nerfed the bone reward so much that it's not worth hunting down on the larger maps without the spirit board, since the candle was the only other reliable way to find the bone without risking death on large maps. (At least in my experience.)
I'm totally okay with the bone reward nerf in and of itself; I just hope they adjusted the map size modifier enough to make it worth hunting down on bigger maps with the added likelihood of sanity loss and risk of death those maps will have.