Of course I'm upset, and you know what? I'm not the only one who's aggravated at what the lab is doing. Creating a new grid where land is cheaper yet buying L$ is more expensive? Making it "mesh only"? I bet you didn't even know that there's only a really small group of people that actually "maintain" the current grid and they sure as hell aren't doing a very good job at it, and as someone of many who pays their salary through buying L$, they should be listening to us, the on-again/off-again paying end-users.
As for network issues, I have long raised a ticket about that only to get my documentation ignored about their ISP (XO Communications) having high latency (ping times), and "assured" that it's something on my end, when I know it's not (ignoring a network administrator? way to go!).
And for the sake that things look the same whether "bento" or mesh? Why bother wasting the time? Oh wait, said soon-to-die new grid that's going to be doomed to fail shortly after it goes live.