No Arci, I don´t agree.
Whenever you tried to cast a negative spell on one of your cities, you got a confirmation prompt, warning you that you will inflict damage on your city. It was absolutely impossible to inflict that damage by "missclicking".
Now you must close all windows (if you find the red x somewhere beyond them), jump to your city on the map, open the spell menu on the city and click earthquake - only to get the same confirmation prompt warning you that you will inflict damage to your city.
It´s complete and utter nonsense, and if that´s the reason given for the deletion of the negative spells from the spell menu, I must ask all those involved whether they know the game they are changing at random. You cannot even disable that confirmation prompt, btw.
I am absolutely unhappy with those changes, both for optical and for functional reasons, and somehow I guess that I will not be the only one feeling that way. Have you had a look on the situation on a device with the minimum screen resolution? It´s awful.