I have read the same threads as you, and I can't seem to find a lot of disagreement about the system.
Sorry, my comment was about my national forum but I didn't mentioned that at the first time
Indeed, there are people asking to make more high levelled staff available, but I haven't read much complaints about the new system itself.
Personally, I think it's a good implementation. The number of high and low levelled staff can be adjusted at any time by the BB's when they feel the equilibrum is distorted.
The system forces the user to make more choices how to run his team financially. It creates an extra dimension.
After giving a second thought on those changes, it is better to have more options for hiring stuff than to have only one trainer/pr/doc ... so maybe I was overreacting and it is probably better to have a better idea and to improve implementation of that idea than to have a bad concept ...
Hoping I was wrong
Regards
Nemanja