Pheryll
Set Designer
As for the level of silly in the nerf, one of the cities I abandoned was just entering the dwarf chapter and suddenly had negative 6,000 population, which they assured us needed to be done to implement Blueprints.
And the RRs were promised to upgrade those nerfed buildings. Instead, Inno later introduced far superior event buildings. With that addition the RRs can do far more than what they were originally promised to do, with fewer of them than the space equivalent of the magic buildings.