Time to tell you my story with this map.
So today, I was playing some maps, you know, I didn't really have anything in mind, and I stumbled across this map. I remember Charles telling me that after the various changes and mods, it actually got pretty good, and I wanted to give it a shot, so I did. I played the Hyper which I easily cleared, then the Another, and finally the Extra. The Another was challenging, but I managed to clear it. However, the Extra just refused to cooperate. Try as I might, I couldn't hit these notes at all, and I tried about twenty times! I figured that something was wrong here, if I really couldn't hit anything, something had to be wrong. So, I jumped into the editor, watched the map a few times, and an idea blossomed in my head. What if, instead of its current circle size, I used CS4? I tried it with the changes and... Magic happened.
Everything was improved, from the flow to the readability. I felt like I was really playing the map and having fun, and not just trying to hit stuff in order to stay alive. I did eventually fail, at the part where there are these streams that are separated by a 1/4 slider jump. But I got most of it, and that's what mattered. It did not make the map any easier; it was still really challenging, a lot more than the Another, but it felt really, really good. Where I previously missed for seemingly no reason, I could hit; I could sightread the map without any problems, something I couldn't really do with the previous circle size. Combined with AR9, it makes for a really great difficulty.
Sadly, I know that my hopes to see it changed most likely are vain. Which is why I'm not going to mod it or suggest anything, instead I just wanted to tell this story, because I believe that this way only describes how badly I want the circle size to be reduced. If it is not changed, I will understand; I think most people would actually find it better with circle size 5, and I respect that. But I still want to insist on this: LKs, I beg of you, please, do consider it. Even if off-hand, you don't want to change it at all, give it a shot. Try to ask if people like it better with circle size 4 or 5. Because I can't stress how much better the map played to me after this was changed enough.
Anyway, that's pretty much all I needed to say here. Good luck with the mapset, Kanna.