There is literally nothing good about this announcement, Liden Labs is basically just raising the cost of membership and the premiums get nothing in exchange.
I couldn't care less about having more groups, how about you give us a break and increase our weekly lidens allowance and land ownership instead ? At least that would warrant the price increase for the premium membership.
As for the basics well they just get whipped even more than they already were... I don't see why anyone would be happy with those changes.