The update for the market is such a let down. I loved trying to find the perfect spot to place them to reach 12 stars for each city. Now the markets look kind of gaudy before they even reach their max potential and it is a lot harder to make them earn a worthwhile amount. Now I find myself wanting to play way less :/.
We changed Markets for 2 reasons:
The biggest reason was due to complaints about them feeling "clunky" and "hard to use". Neither of those are things we wanted Markets to be, and we were getting a lot of complaints about it.
We wanted to tie the production of the Market to the production of the buildings they use. This is more of a logical "Well, duh" approach, as it just makes more sense. You can't sell more lumber if you don't have more lumber to sell, y'know?