When you say you cut out the new areas, what stuff do you mean?
Elevator shaft (dead one), Lava dam, Human default base (v2), Observatory, Lift room, lava tunnel, core turbine, 3rd teleporter, almost all of it gone?
I loved the sheer amount of cool stuff in thermal...
However, the new vents, bug-fixes, and earthquake revision look promising.
Someone out there is bound to do a remix with all of the stuff you removed put back in...