Much more balanced now but these tiny maps are making them unbalanced, amplifying all the faults with the game in general:

• Scout planes are even more dominant. A naval game, dominated by scout planes. For the love of god why can you not see this is an absolutely fundamental error that you need to fix? It ties into the next problem:
• View range. BBs increased now. So like scout planes, you will often find yourself crammed in a corner on one of the tiny new maps being shredded by an enemy you cant see. This is by far the biggest problem in this game, being shot by invisible enemies, caused by a combination of generally ridiculously low view ranges on ships, the abundance of scout planes who can be extremely hard to shoot down, and now a big mismatch in ship sight ranges. There is no fun being killed by an invisible enemy. There is no reward in massacring an enemy that cant fire back.
• Torpedoes - were largely good, no one really complained. Now there's too many. And they dominate on these tiny maps, god help you if you go up against the IJN cruisers. It was a good idea to increase the amount of torps ships carry, but not this much, now people are just constantly spamming torps all across the map.

And, finally, as others have pointed out, i havent played a single full map game since this patch. I would much rather wait longer and have MINIMUM 8v8 battles.