It is good they listen to the players.
As for the less covers, I think it is good for the game if free covers are given too freely. Instead of standard covers I prefer more tokens since they are useful even to those who have maxed those heroes.
I’ve found that 1200 is exponentially harder to reach than 1000, assuming you didn’t find a bagman team to abuse (which seems to have been fixed somehow at some point with all the reports). I can see hitting 1000 by pulling some serious grind, but I didn’t hit 1200 last tournament even while finding a 1000 rating shielded legitmate team because there were 2 guys on my back that’s probably thinking the same thing except they can see me instead of the shielded guy (otherwise they’d be hitting that guy).
They should have more tokens than covers. In the long run tokens are significantly less valuable than handing out covers (good for D3), but that doesn’t stop me from thinking every token I got is going to hit the jackpot (good for me, at least in my mind).