I've heard players moaning about the reduced gold on native shop keepers and ghoul citiguards.
My reasoning was that I didn't want to deal with players fighting over those few mobs as has frequently happened in the past.
Elemental school was not nerfed btw, the gold was just spread around to more mobs. There's a lot of cool mobs there, and now a lot more of them are worth killing.
The idea isn't to nerf gold, just spread it around better. More changes may come.