I miss some of that, with the exception of spawning tons of missions that were above your rank taking up all the space on the mission board. However, I miss the longer mission text more. Some of it was funny. If only they could merge the new bullet pointed mission info with the long text descriptions of old, so that you get more investment in the missions while still knowing everything you need to know at a glance. I've seen a lot of missions lately that would probably have hilarious explanations behind them, such as missions "we need X battle weapons to fight the famine/outbreak", or "transport slaves to help with the medical emergency", or "donate X metal/mineral commodity type to stop the famine".