I play this game from Beta - from first day. Definitly i can say that the performace is
much beter than in early days. Chunk loading times are lowered, specialy for lower machines and low ram. Bugs are still there, think it would allways be a part of VG, but not that much as after beta. SOE is working on it, you can see and feel the changes everytime they play new update on.
Monk class got a bit improved, our styles have new looks, not all punches and kicks looks standard - damage and s on...
We got riftways to travel faster, also flying mounts on each you can rent for few minutes - traveling is beter now, definitly but stil some kind of pain

Hope it helps a bit....