Love the new features for Ancient Wonders and finally updating mobile so that mobile players can donate to Wonders belonging to other people.
However, as it's already been stated by other players, the changes for runes in tournaments is not an improvement. Getting rune shards for Wonders not yet unlocked was one of the reasons to play the tournament as a group (Edit: since I believe you get unlocked Wonder rune shards from completing tournament rounds but the chests had runes from any Wonder). I already get plenty of my unlocked Wonders from completing provinces and donating to other people's Wonders.
I've seen posts from other players in the past complaining about having excess runes for Wonders they have fully upgraded and this will probably only exacerbate the problem.
As for helping out beginning players, I can only speak to my experience but my limiting factor in building my first Wonder was not acquiring runes, but getting together the goods and finding the space to place it- though I had my Abyss built by the end of Chapter II, beginning of Chapter III.