I really loved the game for a long time and I am still trying to play but it seems every time you touch the game there are more tiny planets. The only thing worse than a tiny planet in a single planet system is when it is one of the specialty planets. (I have over 5400 hours of play time now). Several thousand of those hours are now due to respawning the universe. I love big space battles. I do not love spending hours trying to terraform 3 or 4 arctic/Ice/barren planets with a tiny planet for the production center. You also seem to have abandoned the game settings for the most part with the same settings spawning maps with almost no resources and other times having them in great abundance. You also seem to have decided that the starting strategic resources (Titanium, Hyperium)  spawn on tiny or small planets 70 to 80 percent of the time. The games are already long and all this does is make them go even slower. 

There are more map spawns now that are very heavy on the cold or hot side (using normal age setting) and you seem to have forgotten those planets do not have the lower tier resources. I really do not understand what you are trying to accomplish with a lot of these changes. The combat changes your reawakening added is a mixed bag. Attacking defender ships that have much less firepower and ignoring the attacker ships right in front of you while they pour volleys into you does not make any sense at all. Your combat tactics have always been pretty goofy so I should not be surprised. I do love filling the defender ships with troops in C gear. They are very hard to kill and attacking systems with one fleet carrying 7000 troops makes things really move along. 

Please consider a few suggestions. Remove tiny planets completely or at least limit them to a small percentage of the total (5%) and never allow them in a single planet system. Add stars back for the solo gas planets. Only a failed star would be out there alone and it is a real stretch to consider them habitable. Make sure the map spawns reasonably close to the adjustable settings. 

What about mods? In example "Better Planet Generation" or"Only Five Planet Systems"?