I think his main complaint is that the changes negatively affect newbies/people who don't have a lot of time to play and explore a lot more than it does people who spend a lot of time on CF.

It's kind of like the Republican party. Each change gradually widening the gap between the haves and the have nots. Loss of coin sources doesn't affect vet/elites half as much as it does newbies. It's annoying losing these coin spots, but I have a few coin sources left, I still don't have to think twice about quaffing potions. Low ranks are troublesome, but you can rank to 30 in like 2~3 days, and it only gets easier the higher you go. I'm not hurting that much. And I'm sure there are others who care even less.

All the things like neo-outfit, academy changes, low-lvl quest additions?
300 dollar bush-check. It's nice, but doesn't look that great when you consider you've just lost all your coin sources, nobody is telling you theirs in case it gets nerfed too, and you can't practice anymore(while some others still can. It's one thing if no one can, quite another if someone who does know more than you still can. And have a much easier time of it then you could.)

Trying to tell em you lowered the price of pies and can do a few more 1~2000 xp quests (6~7 mobs, 10 minutes at that rank, faster to just go and rank instead of doing the quest.) is like throwing em a quarter for a phone call after you beat em up and take their wallet.

Sure you can tell them they just suck and need to get better. It's their fault after all. How dare they suck at the game? If they don't like you changing stuff they do know, tough cookies, they should explore more and find those damn gold spots, find those damn practice spots, and stop whining cause they ####ing suck.
......It's gonna be mighty hard getting new players to join the CF community though.