It was better having 3x24 hr for necklaces. And it would have been even better to have gone 2x24hr workshop for a BS and 5x9hr for a farmer.
It is great that we finally have decent FA tools, but necklaces, statues, blacksmiths, and farmers really disrupt the use of space so less is better.
It was a good move to make golden bracelets, and the whole series of badges that are way more natural to game play, but the farmer going from 5x9hr to 10x9hr was a bad move, and this increase was significant.
Our fellowship is very low on brews, carps, farmers, BS, necklaces and statues, yet we have hundreds of witch hats, staffs, wonder society, guard, coin, elemental marbles, and ghosts. We aren't overflowing in residue or tiara.
The balance would simply be better with less requirement to slum your city; put farmers back to what they were, reduce BS requirements.