i generally am ready to significantly cut back or retire from the game, but its not really driven by the update. i don't know what i think about the update. i do think there are some serious issues and disagree with the HV cap put in recently, but it is different enough that i accept that it may shake out differently than i think.
i will say, i enjoyed d2/d3 recruiting partly because i was in love with the game overall, when i started. however, over time, it became clear that it actually was really boring and ******. manually sifting through a whole nation's worth of recruits, sending 150 phone calls to find drop downs, i just didn't enjoy it. i wasn't a fan of d2/d3 recruiting in the potential era either, because i felt schools were too limited in their selections, and that regional competition became too important and hurt competitive conferences which is all i cared to be part of. overall, d2/d3 recruiting has never been good in my time here, in my assessment, and so i am totally open to the possibility that the update might make it better.
d1 recruiting, i've enjoyed for years, although i enjoyed it more before recruit gen came around. still, the current system is really unbalanced and not nearly as good as it could be. is the new system the answer? i don't know, but i'm not inherently opposed to a remake like i was in the beginning. recruiting is most folks' favorite part, they say. i would never say that, but i believed other folks, but also i think we define recruiting differently. to me, figuring out who you want, evaluating players, constructing a team, that is different from recruiting mechanics, and is the best part - and will remain fun even as recruiting mechanics are swapped out. i enjoyed d2/d3 thoroughly with what i now consider boring-as-hell recruiting mechanics. i enjoyed d1 pretty much recently with what i consider clearly broken recruiting mechanics. so, will the new mechanics be perfect? hell no. but does that mean the game won't still be fun? i don't buy that, either.
so, i think its worth giving the new system a fair shake - knowing that as with most fresh systems, two things are true - there will be a couple glaring imbalances/weaknesses, and a few key tweaks can probably offer substantial improvement.