Not good. It's one thing withdrawing a few peak services until peak numbers pick up again, quite another thing to downsize the off-peak timetable.
What justification do they have for permanently reducing the frequency of off-peak services? It seems odd to disrupt the 15-min even interval service from Guildford, for instance. If they don't think there's off-peak demand for 4tph any more, they should work towards restoring something like the mid/late 1990s timetable, which had an even-interval 3tph Waterloo-Guildford.
Also, Farncombe 1tph off peak (with a fast making the call in the shoulder peak) currently; any plans to restore that? It's been 2tph since at least the 70s and possibly since the 30s, aside from small gaps in 1993-94 and (apparently) 1977.
Are there still plans to restore the Waterloo-Southampton semi-fast (the former xx39)? I thought there were last time I read the December changes.