Hello I did read many replies here and on Facebook comments. It seems experienced and advanced players have many valid complaints about the update. I want to offer my perspective as a rookie to Club Wars.
1) I like the new war shop which gives an added venue to pile up war items, and help me add new attacks (Yes, this costs simcash - but I have a small stockpile from CoM). I would like to see the war shop give an option to cycle the items presented. I purchased the 5 legendary cards and now have a 2 or 3 day wait for new legendary cards to appear which I may or may not want.
2) The lag was a huge problem for me on day 1 of the update. Fortunately I did not see some of the major issues that players here have posted about. I hope they are compensated fairly for their losses. As for me I am not experience lags or delays as of day 2 and 3 after the update. I play the game on iPhone 7 and iPad mini and both are running smoothly in all facets of the game. (I havent tested war repairs yet, but during day 1 this caused a long delay. Will see once I am attacked during current war.)
3) I concur with those who have mentioned the points needed for opening chests are probably too high. With a pretty hefty investment I was only able to pull off 4k damage and I can't Imagine doing up to 16k for a gold chest. It seems the rewards could be more favorable.
Thanks for taking the time to read this! I do want to thank EA for adding an update and I hope you continue to innovate and invest resources to this app!!