The thing that was abysmal was the state of the game before the patch.
Impossible to farm mats and gold, litteraly.
They had 2 possibilities to solve that : decrease the costs, or increase the amont of gold given, which would obiously changes drasticly the economy in the game. They took 2nd option, better than do nothing
You described details issue comparing to that. The only one main problem left is still the boting and cheat, but that doesnt concern the patch.
Game is now playable, in 7 years I have never seen such a massive return of players on bns, tho you cant blame that much this patch