A small, picky gripe of mine : In the past, Champions cards had the entire photo on the card. I liked being able to see other players in the background of each card - looks like that's all a thing of the past now, as I think the 2000 set was the last non-champions/accolade/tradition set to have full photos. Ah well... nothing too important!
Also, I only had to open one single box every year to complete a set of commons - until last year, when the collation was awful. I opened a box + 20 random packs and still needed about 20 commons to complete the set. Let's hope we don't have the same issue again!