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Yes. Some of the reforms were suggested by the Royal camp, some were suggested by the szlachta, and all were killed by how moronicaly he tried to pass them through the Sejm (Zabor? Skupshtina?). He was a below average king - he was elected because he was a "dove" versus the Chmielnicki...

I suspect that by gentry you mean szlachta*. At this point the knights/szlachta are political nothings. They will become relevant only in 1454. It is the magnates/możni/lords/nobility who matter. * - societal and legal differences between PLC area and Western Europe make terminology a minefield...

1 Those XVIIIthe century absolutisms grew out of XVIIthe supression of great nobles and/or estates and their power and medieval freedoms. I see a possibility for this in the PLC if Władysław IV or Jan II Kazimierz get brain transplants. The szlachta was not happy with the magnates and was...