Ah man, i typed a big comment about it and when to eat but now i was too late.
Ok so, they did the 1.2 livestream and did not adress any of the main complains of the game and locked the dislikes and comments.
So for starters, P5x has limited units yes but some units are added to standard and get a limited banner first. One example of thoses is Marian (nurse healer) who has a banner in 1.1. This is very early and i presume because you only have 5 standards on release and most of them are from P5. Nothing on the news or banner description said she would go to standard tho so people theorized she wasn't.
In this stream they revealed was that new standard units will NOT go there until at least 6 months later while in china they would be added right after. This is awful because some of those standards are genuinely good and make losing 50/50 less bad. Marian for example is one of the few supports that cleanses 2 debuffs at once so she's top tier to this day.
There is also a standard selector for finishing chapter 3 that includes that nurse waifu but with this change, it's likely that she will not be avaiable on that selector.
The only thing they adressed was the 100 -> 600 crystals upgrade after each version from now on (600 is the default in china btw) and gave 10 rolls as compensation.
Another thing i found out is that apparently the endgame is much harder to unlock on global version too because the permanent challenges (think abyss 1-8 ) have less weaknesses and +5 levels.
(from reddit)
If you know smt you then you know his gimmick (for many games) is reflecting physical but being weak to magic yet he only has 1 weakness here. In fact, the element it's weak to is only avaiable to 2 units currently, both supports and 1 being standard. This makes it a lot harder/longer to unlock the final trials that cycle aka the true endgame.
Inbetween this and the stuff like backloading the social link rewards and locking high account level to finish the story (both global changes) it sounds like SEGA/Atlus really wants global to spend on daily stamina and gacha early on because an f2p will be much slower to finish current content or reach endgame. But if this comes at the cost of tanking your reputation, it's probably not worth it (just a guess).
Note that it doesn't make much sense either as patches are like dropped at lightspeed (every 10-14 days) in order to catch up with CN server and 1.2 is already today. Had no idea so i tried and got lucky to roll Marian around 50~ rolls.