I never really checked my Gold/hour, but it 'feels' like I'm getting more gold/hour.
I usually farm act 2, taking a homemade route through the act, ending up with killing Kulle and Belial, and usually never dying more than 2-3 times. So the repair costs haven't really affected me at all.

Btw Semakka, how the HELL an you amass a 60k repair bill, I would have to die like 12-14 times to pay that much now.