One complaint about the new update

I miss being able to talk to the Caldarus statue. I dont wanna spend the essence to warp to deep woods just to talk to him. If the statue can teliport the player why cant it act like a teliphone. I normally start my day off by watering crops, pet and feed animals, talk to caldrus, then go do whatever. But now I have to go out of my way to talk to him and I dont like it. Also in human form be only seams to have one personality trait which is being sick/weakened. Idk im not super deep into the new content, maybe as time goes on he will slowly get better or after I unlock all the skills, I wont care about essence.