If this were a new game or had a booming population I would support it, but it is neither of those things and all this would really accomplish is making things harder on new players. You nerfed exp multiple times despite us telling you the same thing, and population continues to dwindle. Before making any change you should ask yourself, how would this effect a new player? Even if you think it makes the game more 'fun' or that it makes it closer to how it was way back in the day, to new players its simply an additional obstacle that they could have avoided if they were fortunate to play X amount of time ago.
I feel like a better use of dev time would be to make the game more accessible to new players, so that they can catch up and participate with the majority of the remaining playerbase. I can respect your vision to how the game 'should be,' but we should focus on the reality.