I submitted a ticket and got the following response.
Hi XXXX,
The following is a post from Norbert in the GD forums:
"The recruiting changes are in effect. The only changes made were to DII and DIII recruiting as those are where we found the most balance issues between Sim AI recruiting amounts and human recruiting amounts. DIA and DIAA values were not changed. We will continue to monitor recruiting and feedback and see where it stands the next time we make an update."
Additionally, we've looked at the code and we can confirm that nothing was changed with DI recruiting.
I have followed-up with a new email citing specific examples in hopes they will investigate further. Others may want to do the same. I trust that they did not intentionally change anything in D1 recruiting, but there has been a change in the effect. I assume there is a hiden unintended consequence. Spending $24k to knock-off a sim from a player in your backyard should not happening.