Utterly Mad

From the sounds of it they pretty much killed a new player's chance of being able to pick up the game and play without a wiki. I was able to do that when I first started, slowly learning how to do things by exploring both the randomly generated world and the UI to figure things out. It was my fourth character when I learned to destroy the lockers in the shelter and make a crowbar for an improvised weapon and a tool for breaking into buildings.
Now, with all this bullshit I don't think new players would be able to do that with much ease.

Either way I don't play it anymore so all these new systems are news to me, but sounds like they've royally fucked the game.