new items and less quests is perfect. There's still some things that could be done to reduce clicks/improve flow (like allowing to press space to remove the reward window, or having the reward window not require you to click it away at all but just have it show up somewhere on screen where its unintrusive).
I do feel like some of the numbers for the requirements for the quests are a bit weird? There's a LOT of pet-affection/interaction related actions now that can quickly exhaust your menagerie if you're a new player and gets tiring to have to constantly grab a new pet for when you're a late game player. I think those numbers could be altered a little still.

ALSO the new quest updates emphasize to *please* put the "This is what you have to do!" prompt of the quest *on the last message* so that when you skip dialogue, you can look at what you're supposed to do immediately instead of having to then still click back just to check.