Welcome to the new "better" HH where loyal players get punished. Typical greedy developer move that screws people over for staying loyal to them and even helping them via Patreon. I played millions of browsergames and saw things like that a lot, devs upset their fans, fans react to it, devs act like they dont hear that and stay silent. The only thing that will help is to drop it and find something else to play. One of those browsergames i mentioned and played a lot a few years ago was Dark Orbit. They didnt listen to their loyal fans and the game died out, it's still online but literally nobody plays it anymore. If that's the goal of the HH devs then congrats, you made the first move.