I'd say it depends. They've been doing monthly update blogs which is a huge improvement on the previous 9 years, but the "smart AI" transfers were such a shitshow and still haven't been truly fixed. Ability to use five subs is fantastic, extra tactic options I suppose are good but I've not even touched them.
What pisses me off is none of the updates so far have anything that "throws a bone" to free users. There is no successful game that I can think of, that is free to play but only has updates that just the paid members can make use of. Doing that isn't going to be good for any game world in the longer term and we've already bled about a sixth of the players here because of it.