What has happened with economy after 2.2?

[CigfanLiram]

It just don`t work.
One minute I have +17 energy and the next it is -15. After building ONE MINING STATION. And if I somehow manage to overcome constant energy loss by covering my home world with energy districts, its all go to drain right after I try to colonize more then 2 planets. Never have I ever had such problems with economy in this game before. And what about research points?! 80+ months for 1st techs?
What is wrong with this game now?

 

[Xeorm]

Nothing's wrong with the game. Why build so many energy districts on your home world? You do know they're a drain without pops to work them, right?

Research is a bit slow to start, yes.

 

[Gratak]

I has become much more jumpy because building something may shift pops away from your production. Major issue if the new jobs are in a higher strata and you can't just push them back...

 

[Ramiel]

Economy could use some tuning sure, but overall it's working quite well. Just sounds like you need to (re)learn how to play the game. There's a lot of guides out there, but in general don't build stuff you don't need - it'll just drain maintenance costs and pull pops away from worker jobs, crashing your economy in the blink of an eye. And of course with a redone economy the balance on research has been redone; it's a lot slower at start sure, but that just means your choices are more important, and it speed up quite a bit mid-late game.