My thoughts on the presents.
Having no barracks is disappointing, as others have already said.
No Obs BPs on Beta so probably none here either. Disappointing for the new worlds that have no Obs to get BPs from.
As far as the set pieces go, I'll probably go for a couple of pieces to go with the ones you get from the questline. Certainly won't go for the whole set or multiples but I'm sure that others will. I've already seen diagrams of set combinations with multiples of different pieces. I won't be doing that. I'm getting a bit tired of sets and especially moving them. If (as others have suggested) Inno would come up with a way to move a set as a single piece that would change.
To me, the total quality of the prizes seems about like last year. Sure, there are a lot of days where a set piece is the main prize and people are unhappy about that. However, last year we had daily prizes of: Winter Gate, Gingerbread House, Festive Tree, Snow Globe, Nutcracker etc. Would you rather have those? Last year Store Building was up 3 times and people complained about that too.