The new exam approach is a real game changer and will provided loaded value to project management.People (42%),Process (50%) and Business Environment (8%). This change is coming at the right time and

The game that is changed is not necessarily passing the exam.It is the approach to project management, the shift, the mindset and the recognition of the importance of people in the whole space (teams, leadership, conflict resolution, stakeholder mapping, balancing act and so on.).The change is beyond exams.

But you talk about the exam, or at least is what I understood. In fact those percentages are from content outline, I believe (sorry if I am wrong). If we talk those in the sense you are talking about then let me say: 1-people was always consider like the key success factor. 2-there is a big mistake about the percentage assigned to business environment because is against the systemic thinking that must be prevail in project management. At end is not about the PMI. Is about each of us. The PMI sometimes will try to bring water to its mill (this is not a concern. sometimes we forget it is a business and as any type of buisiness there is a need to survive, growth and developt).