I don’t understand why people want more micro. I think AOE 4 is better the way it is in term of microing. I think more Quality of Life features should be added instead of making playing the game a chore. Such as toggle production, defensive building auto focusing on units without armor, horsemen not moving back and forth when asked to attack archers that are retreating.
Also AoE 4 is already very micro-intensive. Personally I cannot play this game for too long because of how much you have to focus on everything. On high elo it becomes very stressing and winning and losing comes down to a single mistake. Forgetting knights for a second and you end up losing all of them to spears. Archers moving forward carelessly and magonel destroying all of them. Left a single opening to the base now you have running knights. You have to focus on everything. I even forget making villagers in intense moments. I think its opposite, we need more QoL changes to AoE. Hotkeys have been added, we need more.