As someone who's been playing TCGs and CCGs for close to twenty years as well, I share your sentiment. I find it baffling that people think provisions are not healthy for the game.
Yep. At least the people here admit that Homecoming was.... not that great and talk about some of the issues:
It's a first step. If they actually implement good changes the game could get interesting again... I hope so. Right now Homecoming is worse than old GWENT, to put it clearly. At least they went beyond denial now and admitted their mistakes.