Well, in all honesty, we haven't seen clades yet. We haven't been able to choose our character age and size to see different attributes. I just feel like player speed was better before in my opinion. Some people agree, some disagree. For all I know, clades could speed up our character, maybe SV is working on improving player speed. Who knows. I feel like they could definitely improve the speed to a reasonable number so people feel like they're running and not walking the entire time. I know a lot of people are into the whole "slow-paced combat" but if you're gonna be defending your own playstyle, might as well come up with better facts right? To why the combat is perfect or good the way it is and to why player movement speed is fine, rather than saying "no speed is ok"
I know the map increased 6* in size and maybe we feel slower because of that, but if they're going to increase the map's size, they might as well show us mounteds or give us an update on how player movement speed is going to look like when the game releases into early access. Either way, the suggestion of increasing player speed isn't a bad idea and since the game is in beta, it's better to try out things now than later.