I oppose user titles and voting. Both make it attractive to write pointless postings. I mean, see what I did even before I was honored for it! ... ;)
... and there’s still no default avatar, I see. Good, good. (But the image-not-found picture next to my nickname is still weird.)

I seem to be a moderator now. Ha!

... the other changes are good though, thank you for reconsidering the shutdown.