Thanks for sharing your point of view. Some things are just a matter of preference, and of course you're free to shape them the way you want. No one dies because of slow walking speed on a few small maps. :D
It's great that you're open for suggestions, but I hope that you'll only implement feasible changes that you're comfortable with. Like I said, it's probably not worth the effort trying to bend the auto-save now.
I hope that many more players will discover your game, though I'm sure they all would "complain" about different nitpicks then - gamers are a difficult audience. ;)