@Catzilla I haven't updated the game yet as I am too busy with work to even play, but I wondered about that when I saw the patch notes and was hoping that would not be the case. I too do not like random townies filling in the empty houses and always had it off. I want to choose who lives in the world and who doesn't.
@chocolatefrosting I understand what you are saying, but I don't want to spend what little time that I have to play my game on just deleting random townies from households every 5 minutes.
I wish they would stop removing/nerfing things in the game that were options. :'(