For number one, my request is obvious. Console replays are pretty poorly designed when something ‘closer’ to caster mode is available in games like AoM for console players. Even it is a really basic version of caster mode, a better UI would be greatly appreciated.
For number two, again comparing AoM, having the ability to select a few civs for random/shuffle, rather than random all would be amazing to have. There are an are Civs I like to cycle through, but can’t play random because there are also some I don’t enjoy/don’t really mess with much. Being able to choose x amount to be included in random would be fantastic. AoM offers this and it’s a wonderful feature.
Sidebar: On console, at least on ps5, the replay ‘extra stats’ (when you hold down triangle and cycle through different options with L1) has some errors/doesn’t align properly. I think it’s military statistics that pulls up religious stats or something like that.