Seems to me that changes good or bad are bulldozed through regardless of feedback on the test server, bringing in the map elements thing is a bad move. I cannot see for the life of me why this is deemed high priority, over the last 3 years I've had locked zones a few times and every single time it's been Generals landing in obscure places or creating ghost images of themselves. The last time you tried tinkering with this on test I was locked out for weeks.
Regarding minimum amount of collectibles why does everything have to be so vague, why can't you just say from next implemented change everyone will get a minimum of 20 collectibles for instance. Infact given that it's now a right royal pain gathering enough to make more than a few buffs why not swamp the servers and give everyone a minimum of 40.