The xp rate that it was giving before gave a ridiculous advantage to the player over ai lords, if you don't enjoy it then you can easily mod it, but a majority of players were complaining about the ridiculous amount of xp it gave. Obviously my opinion but a majority of xp gained should be through battles anyway it makes more sense for immersion and balance, if anything, in the current state the player xp should be about the same and ai lords should have increased xp gain, too often lords are stuck with armies of 100 with 50 recruits. Don't bash them for balancing what the majority of people were complaining about, they are working on feedback while trying to work on tons of other systems and reactions towards change, like this, is not productive at all