It’s not rocket science, it just takes people who know the game to be working on it.
I heard rumors of actual dev team (which is not the old one - they are working on Dune atm) has been playing the game and these changes are just them adapting the game to their style.
Don’t know if that’s true, but even so, there’s still a difference between PLAYING the game and KNOWING the game. The obviously don’t know it.
I don’t know it perfectly and yet I proposed a system which is better than any Thrall system we’ve had so far (including the old one).
Check this: Age of War Evaluation
especially this: Better Thrall System
and this: Better Pet System
Both systems I made in 1 day, alone, without any help. Imagine what a good team of people could do in the 3 months between an update and the next one. In the end, devs shouldn’t be play the game. They should listen to players who did it for years.