That’s 100% BS. A lot of these guys made videos about steppe lancers saying “they are completely useless now! steppe lancers have been destroyed”
If what you said was true, then they destroyed the unit on purpose and made all that circus pretending they didn’t know about it and are terrible at dealing with balance changes.
They even talk in streams and videos about how bad a civ is and how it needs some buffs, others some nerfs and all that jazz and can’t change anything? That’s total bs dude