Thank GOODNESS for the Kourend favour changes!!
I feel like the community has been pretty divided on this from the responses I've seen online. That said, as someone who is just recently getting back into OSRS, I'm very thankful that my questing progress isn't locked behind hours of grinding to achieve 100% favour in all areas.
Is it difficult? No (aside from those stupid sulphur clouds) . Does it make sense to lock content behind favour in addition to skill requirements? Also no.
I feel like this change will bring more players to the area for skilling and break up the meta a little bit for efficient paths to 99 smithing/mining.