I agree, it's just too fast now.. It looks so unnatural..

Well, you will level up everything to 50 anyway, if you keep playing. Beside old climbing was too slow and consume too much stamina. Like really, who decide that climb at 3 meter rock and use all stamina you have a good idea? Thats just stupid. Beside with feybreak update devs added randomizer to the game, and at full random with old climbing this just 100% impossible to play.
Because you have to deal and move around 45+ pals average, where many of them are 50+.
If you can't climb, you are screwed.
Different modes use a different approaches, so you can't really get safe base with randomizer and you have to gather alot resources before you even attempt to build one. But you can't do ♥♥♥♥, unless you can climb with normal speed and stamina consumpion.
So this may look too much for default game mode, but if you even consider to look at other game modes you find out the reason to change it.

okay. good to know. but since the player is making the conscious choice to have lvl 90 pals in your starting zone it's also their choice to deal with all of what that entails. So I disagree that that would be a necessary change. I understand it may be what allows you to survive a singular encounter here and their, but again that was your choice to turn that on.

This is just my thoughts on it since I just wanted to know if anyone else thinks the new speed is excessive.

I thought old speed was fine, but certain people hated how they couldn't climb, run, and fly like it was breath of the wild.