having speed traits on hitched horses actually slows the cart speed down?

[Delone 215]

Just did some testing using 2 old 5 speed horses versus one with carry more and strong body, the other with just strong body.

 

Both pairs had one old, and one venerable horse, gear was swapped between them so it was the same for both.

 

Despite having one less draught trait between them, the horses with NO speed traits were 2kph faster than the old 5 speeds - so not only are the speed traits not doing anything hitched as was expected from the patch notes, it is actually slowing them down? Either that or there is something wrong with the way the game is calculating the pulling power of draught traits.

 

 

[Ekcin 2,417]

I assume that those without speed traits are "warm blood" or "cold blood" types. It would be understandable if the speed type ("hot blood") is weaker in dragging more weight, it is not consequential that they are slower altogether.  Generally, instead of frustrating and disenfranchising players with drastic speed nerfs, it would have been the better move to grant speed bonuses to specialized hitches while leaving the old performance widely in place. Also, of course, such large changes would have needed professional user acceptance testing before release.