A disappointing compromise, but I can see why they did it given the types of feedback that they were getting (e.g. seven times more respondents from Southport than from Liverpool), they are bound to listen to those who make the most noise
Some of the changes are definite improvements, trying to have simple half hourly services on a number of corridors (Liverpool - Sheffield, Atherton - Todmorden, Blackburn - Rochdale, Blackpool - Airport etc)
There's also some scope to improve/extend some services without it impacting upon paths in central Manchester (e.g. Buxton going back to half hourly), as I read it?
It's just a shame that they couldn't be a little more "ruthless", given that we'll probably not have another opportunity like this to "rip it up and start again" (i.e. the twin changes of Covid and GBR created the best opportunity to rewrite timetables rather than the bodge job we've had over the years where we couldn't tweak things because of franchise commitments, so the only option was the bodge of adding an extra hourly service here and an extra hourly service there, which is what caused the congestion that we've seen in recent years!)
I'd certainly be annoyed if I lived at one of the local stations on the Warrington Central line, seeing my service into Manchester cut significantly because Southport services are taking the Oxford Road slot that CLC stoppers used to have - Southport trains have the option of an alternative route into Manchester whilst the CLC obviously doesn't