If we're gonna reduce the exp for items, you should lower the exp needed to get for levels, I personally don't want it to take like 5 years to get to level 25. It was right that stuff like sugarcane,dirt,wheat and cobble should've been dropped but not so much that it's impossible to get to the next level e.g. stone/cobble/dirt used to be 1exp, but then it became 0.5exp (This value was alright) and now 0.25exp. I'm level 11 and its 3645 exp till the next level, that means I would have to mine around 13000 cobble and dirt to get to level 12. I'm not saying i should constantly mine cobble/dirt but isn't that a bit too much to mine? Also I believe that iron is worth more than coal and yet the exp for iron is 1exp and coal is 2exp which is kind of confusing. I don't mean to bother people with this,but if we're are gonna do it right, let's do this right. One thing to improve would be to improve on the exp would be to use the original values but increase the level exp needed to get to the next level or that thing I said at the top.
Let's just hope things get better.