I remember that we had the same discussion some OOTP's ago, when most players complained about how suddently the draft became incredibly shallow after 10-15 picks and one basically had to pick 1* players after the first two rounds.
I personally like this change alot because it means you 'can' actually impact things a bit more with your high picks, and it's not like knowing that everybody that you pick after the 2nd round only becomes an impact player if the random number generator that runs the 'Randon Player Development Show' is nice to you