A NECESSARY STATEMENT... #stitchincoming

Great post. I pretty much agree with all your comments, summed up very nicely.                               I made the mistake on my Capital city of upgrading everything with random abandon to get it up to speed. As a result I blew through thousands and thousands of Simoleons and Neomoleons.   I lost about 200,000 in population across my Capital City which has since recovered but only after I went back and fixed everything.  I have upgraded everything to Omega services across all 4 regions and Capital City but I’ve also managed to keep my cities welcoming & pretty.  I am one of those players that enjoys the game for building and designing. Example, I have my Omega buildings all lined up by type and in neat lines so when I collect the coins, they ricochet off each other nicely. All other buildings are in communities and by type. I love that part of the game. 
 I think the rollout was anticipated as functional with lower populations in mind. If, like me, you have your Capital city and 4 regions fully expanded it was actually a very stressful time trying to correct everything when you didn’t know that Omega would really fix most service issues, you’re running out of coins and while there was a promise that during the Service 2.0 rollout, you would not lose happiness but I lost over 700,000 in population over all areas. 
I still love playing the game.