For me and in general, its not necessarily because of the change / balance issues that have affected my decision of not playing utopia, its because of real life issues.
Real life usually gets the best of every gamer out here. If it would be possible to implement a work safe skin in the utopia website (much like the skin in this forum) this would make it more flexible for gamers to go online whenever they can and not worry about getting fired when playing.
*Fingers crossed this gets noticed to the developers :)