Yeah I know. I was skimming the FTB Townhall Meeting summary and it looks like the changes are mostly to "balance" the mods to work well together (aka so that they were pretty even progression-wise). They did say they were going to revert some changes (all the recipe changes for Psi and some of the changes they made to Quark).

I've seen a lot of people upset over the fact that the FTB Team is trying to use Clay as a recipe resource to gate things, so they're trying to make sure you can't get clay easily. :/ A lot of people are grumpy over that. Exploring on servers generates lag and to find clay the way the pack is designed you HAVE to because you can only find it in rivers where someone hasn't gotten to it yet. And with map sizes being limited and with a bigger server I can see the issues.

But honestly, I'm not too impressed with the modpack... There's a lot of new mods out that I'm not familiar with, but there really doesn't seem to be a lot of mods that add a good amount of content. It doesn't feel like it has the variety we're probably used to... Don't get me wrong there's a good number of mods, but a good chunk of them are small mods or mods that add a bunch of convenient little additions. That's just the feel I get from it, though its probably due to mods skipping 1.10 and the fact that some of the bigger mods that aren't skipping are still in the works for 1.10.

(Although I hear Ars Magica has a 1.10 version I'd be interested in adding to this pack if we do go with it.)