Alright I have used the system enough to have an issue with the quality system. I have no idea whats going wrong but I will list the things I have seen.
1) While farming I have seen crops drop well beyond the range we have been told. The one that stick in mind was going from q18 to 8 in one generation. Something is wrong ere.
2) Chickens in coops degrade in quality even when given food that is higher in all three parts of food are above their q.
3) When i was traveling to join with friends i was off for some time due to illness. The seeds in my inventory degraded in quality from what they were when i placed them there.
4) Finally with friends I helped harvest pumpkins and stored them in a purely pumpkin stockpile. Now with the changes to quality they were all the same except for a few that were higher. Well later I return to get some pumpkins out and guess what? They had qualities all over the board I had some jump 20 points in one category and others drop across the spectrum.
As I said i have no idea whats going on but please address it. Id much rather have the old system that works than this.