Removing astral sailing as a part of core progress was hands down the worst change in the history of the game.
Astral got simply destroyed.
D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D
Astral is not the only feature that has been destroyed.
Remember Astral Confrontation? When we had to conquer or defend the island's guild with a 24 raid vs 24 raid? There were a real guild teamwork, there was some adrenalin when raids were on equal strength. Skills and raid coordination made all the difference.
Now it has been replaced by this totaly shitty 6v6 dominion which is only a matter of having a chance to be against a strong party with favored classes or a weak party with sabotaged classes. Zero strategy, zero guild work, zero interest, zero fun, only a blob of dung.
AC has been destroyed, Astral has been destroyed, and now pvp has been ruined too. In fact "GCD" should be renamed into "GCLag", since it seems to be the only camouflage they found to hide the lags they're unable to fix.
This and the classes that has been sabotaged in order to give an advantage for few chosen favored classses (as it could be seen in 3v3 event like circle of so-called "equals", which was such a grotesque joke) turned pvp activities into a vomiting crap, where GCLag + permanent chained control make your character disabled during the whole fight. Congratulation to the deep retard who made that garbage.
Also we won't forget the overdose of boredom brought by the gearing process, which shows how the entire gameplay has been botched.
And by the way, importing Skyforge's feature into Allods at any cost is just (another) major mistake. People who want to play Skyforge just go play Skyforge. People who want to play Allod DON'T want to play a low-grade ersatz of another game, especially when it means destroying all what made Allod unique.
Personnally i don't have any hope for 8.0 patch, seeing how they seem so desperately dumb. So unless they fire the monkey who's done that sloppy crap on classes, i don't see anything left to expect from this game.