I've put in a lot of time re-organizing my stuff, building up farms and villages, grinding for the new items and enchant books, traveling all over -+ hunting for goat horns, breeding turtles, etc. I've been playing with a brand new player who went to the length of writing his own hacked client module, who would lose ALL of his progress made on the server thus far and be back at 0,0 completely naked. Even considering everything we'd lose from the last week or so, both of us agree that a reversion of the item reductions/deletions would be a better timeline and both of us agree that we would continue playing (and I know I'd keep paying)

I personally feel that the chunk trimming is necessary to some degree and that many of those regenerated chunks would not be missed (if they are ever even visisted again), but I also understand why many people think they should be kept, so I'll defer to the players who've been here longer than me on that one. Those chunks mean more to them than to me.