I'm happy to see so many bug fixes in this patch (and the new free DLC it's coming with is truly awesome), but I audibly groaned when I got to the bit about manual exploration being removed, and Wiz's explanation for doing so -- i.e. that the devs feel the new automatic exploration system and the updates 1.11 will bring to it make manual exploration unnecessary -- doesn't ease my anxiety at all. Isn't that feeling exactly what led to removing manual exploration in the first place, until the backlash on the forums prompted the devs to put manual exploration back in? Why assume that you've really got it perfectly right this time? I'm also not big on the idea of removing a feature that many players use because "it's unnecessary" in the first place; if you remove it because you think it somehow confers an advantage that makes the new automated system you've put so much work into useless, that's another thing, but removing it because you personally wouldn't use it in a game? That doesn't fly so well with me.
Also, I saw the fix for the bugged treasure fleets, and that's very welcome, but wasn't there another bug regarding to the Treaty of Tordesillas and the colonization bonuses being stuck to the tag ToT was granted to? E.g. Castile hits South America first, gets ToT for the region, then tag switches to Spain, and the ToT is still stuck to the Castile tag so Spain is regarded as a new colonizer outside the terms of the ToT? I didn't find anything about that in the patch notes. Does this bug not really exist, or is it fixed by virtue of having fixed something else? Or is it still a bug that won't be addressed in this upcoming patch?