I decided to test it even though I’m done with the game. On my 110k pop city I ran it for 2 hours and simulation speed pre patch was 1.2 and is now .06 - 0.8
The performance is back to where it was pre optimization patches.
Sometimes you need to take two steps back so later you can take one step forward, ok?
Edit: seems like quite a few people didn’t understand the joke, 2 steps back and 1 forward is still 1 step back, they are slowly getting worse