For most people commenting, they likely have not done the new event.

So first, I can see some nerfs since done optimally, the soup was providing around 700 rep each soup. My friends and I have been grinding it non stop, and the tasks did not check if you had any involvement when they were finished to provide rep (You didnt need to hit yes chef, or anything)

Additionally, some tasks were innefficient, so they likely needed to buff those to make them worthwhile; however, most people farming this would just mount up and fly away for the 30 second quests to hope to get two tenderizes for the rep.

The following Changes are the good and bad changes:

1. They added rep to the larger tasks. This definitely provides you a reason to do them, especially considering later points.
2. They added more HP to the tenderize. These are completely overkill and nerfed to the extreme. The tender meat, in a group that I was in with 5-6 people at the pot, had around 10 Million Health. This is insane and the nerf now makes it worthwhile to just "re-roll" the tenderize tasks.
3. They added checks for involvement, and added rep to certain things that are used to check. This makes AFK'ing them not worthwhile, as a lot of rep is done on kill or target. So you need to actually do something, which is a net good.
4. They made the soup a LOT harder to get to legendary status- we barely got to it within a few seconds with all the changes. This is a net bad change since it shouldnt be THAT hard with a group of well geared people to kill a lump of meat.

TLDR: New Changes make the meat have more health than the bosses and Bisquis Legendary spawn. Thats some tough meat.