To Vaughn's point, as I read through the profile, I can immediately recognize all the holes and the routing and general shot requirements look to have changed very little. But the level of refinement also shows clearly.
I loved The Harvester in its previous iteration, and I would have loved for it to become a Midwestern bastion of public golf. But I also love the idea of The Harvester: Pure Golf Club. The "lowest common denominator" element of a public course's audience that Ran's review alludes to always felt like it hurt the Harvester experience. A lovely walk, walked by virtually no one. A great course for competitive play, but without the busy tournament and game culture of a true club. A setting worth savoring before and after a round, left unsavored by trunk slammers. A place that begged for a firm and fast presentation that its clientele might dismiss as unfair.
I hope they crush it, and I hope to return and see it for myself.
I posted some shitty photos of the previous version in this thread back when the closure of v1.0 was first announced on this site:
https://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,59505.25.html. Not great pics, but they illustrate a few changes. 5 seems like it was a little shorter before, and you can see the lack of shared fairway with 6. I recalled 14 being a longer par 3, but the idea of shortening it a bit from the members' tees and asking for trajectory control in a windy location makes a lot of sense to me. It usually plays a bit downwind, correct? It always did for me anyways. You can also compare the shaping at 17 with the new bunkering in Ran's profile.