1: I see good and bad. They started this to reduce clutter that was slowing the site down, right? The limit makes it fairer (sort of) to newbies, BUT the point system makes it unfair. Instead of being able to donate 30 items of any quality and get good things, you've either got to spend a ton of NP, hope you had good stuff already, or just settle for so-so prizes. I've been grabbing stuff that was worth more points in older events, but I'm already out of the stuff that was worth the maximum amount of points because I had zero idea how it'd work because they change the point system each year. Do I buy a ton of things you can technically get for free every day at 10K each and hope to get some of that cash back, or do I go for the next tier down and hope that I can get enough NP to get enough good prizes to make up for what I've spent?
2: I like that they have a set of new things (petpet and the necklaces are, right?) AND a lot of old prizes. I've been around for 20 years (wow, I feel old, lol) but wasn't active for a lot of it, so I've missed a lot of things like stamp giveaways or events (noooo!) It's really nice that they are releasing some of the old stuff because there is no way I'll ever (especially with price gougers, especially since I've seen some theories a lot of those are using bots to grab items to inflate the prices of) be able to afford half the stuff I want-gourmet food, books, stamps, etc. Would probably be better if they were doing it through things like the daily question, though.
3: I also had no idea stuff like food club bets were controversial. I don't see any problem with permanent events on the site giving better rewards as an account ages. Gives you something to stick around for. For limited time events, I think it's a lot less fair. Hey, I'm new! Oh, this event looks. . . oh, I'll just have to hope I can buy the prizes sometime in future when my account is older/I've got more np/I've just given up and become a price gouger so I can afford anything. Cool.
4: I picked Illusen because I'm a goodie-two-shoes who likes light side stuff There are a couple things on Jhudora's side that I'd like to get, but eh. Either way it'll be fine I'm sure? I just always get a ton of anxiety over choices because I am always afraid I'll find out I've made the wrong one.