All I am going to say is that Yule became a junk region after this re-balance. Yule was barely feeding it self before, now it cant really do it on a daily basis.
With a lord and a knight.. each only gets about 37 - 40 gold a tax.. yet the near by city knights make something like 200 - 250 gold each. Well... good for them. As soon as I run out of money I'm going to make my courtiers go unit less. -.-
Sounds like it's always been. (Maybe a bit worse, but it never was a very useful region.)