It feels like a deliberate change that when someone nopes out of the empire they take IA equivalent to their dev, but it really hobbles the AI empire because by the time the Shadow Kingdom fires, on average I see them with ~45 IA, so it means they take ages to even get the first reform, whereas before they could maybe get the second or third before the Reformation fires. It also makes the paltry IA you receive from resolving the Imperial Incident pointless as it's drained away, so at a minimum it would be nice if you could shuffle the order of IA gain/loss so you actually gain the benefits promised by the incident.