Well, if we consider just FCs and their 18+ month delay, their seemingly significant change and down scale in mechanics, and then cast our minds back to their Beta release and how just bizarely unfit for purpose they were balance wise, I think that underlines the management and design issues that seemingly have plagued FD for 4-5yrs now...I wonder if, throughout the years of incompetent changes, they simply gave up upon trying to appease (or understand) the community. So much time and effort wasted on changes that didn't amount to a lot of positives. I hope this is not the case, however. This attitude would be an immediate death sentence to Odyssey.
As for buffing combat payouts, you really can't go wrong any further, with such a f-ed economy.