I'm glad that I get far less pointless system messages. I'm anyway always switching from mails to notifications, and back again, to get rid of the
"blue" number (= unread notifications). So if something happens while I'm online and watching notifications are good enough. Various features could be added, as suggested by Rill, e.g., using
Ctrl-F (browser search) to find the last known number of surviving rare herbs at map location
x|y is clumsy.
However, the arrival of unusual vans, gifts or tax-free player to player trades, still deserves a system message. Likewise gatherers killed at work meanwhile get a system message, but gatherers killed on arrival get only a notification: From my POV both events are unusual enough to trigger a system message.