My point is “China feudal is not really weak”, it might not be the top of the best, and still have some tough match up, where you might need to deviate the strategy acc. to what enemy does, but it surely isn’t weak as some say. You don’t need to Feudal all in, what you need is to keep yourself eco lead, remain tempo, and map control, and punish enemy if they go more greedy than you. Your main goal, in some match ups, is to get imperial really quick, while still have a cluster of ZGN, where it has a big power spike.
You might be surprised, I used to share the same opinions in china needing a buff as well like this extra IO which can be research from IA, this even dated back to November last year. But not anymore, as china is alr in a good spot.