I personally love the change. Foraging still gets you tons of berries and it was trivial to obtain massive rows of bushes and plop them right outside your door. In my previous worlds, I could have easily lived off of berries, juice and wine if I had wished. It can be a bit harder to spot them now, but I find that it makes marking them more important.
The fertilizer requirement doesn't seem to be an issues at all either. I haven't yet had to fertilize a bush but the patch notes mention that some bonemeal each year should be enough to keep them topped off. This doesn't seem like it would be an issue at all, I'm never facing a shortage of bones, especially with how powerful fishing is.