It is mostly targeting french content (RD is a french company), so most user may have not see a big change. For french, RD has become muche less attractive because RD has banned biggest french torrent site and 1fichier files are scanned, if file matches hash content from movies/series it will blocked download.

I don’t use orca, but you may have a setting to reduce retraction in infill. This is for reducing printing time. You can disable it (if there is this setting)

Hot water can also be useful in some case (not boiling hot), also help to avoid burned marked due to a flame (in particular with white filament)