Often the fundamental disagreement in these threads is that different people come here to have different conversations. We end up talking past each other.
Some discuss and suggest sizable changes and improvements to the original game on the theory that the Developers might incorporate them and if an idea is good enough, then we fans have some kind of duty to shout from the rooftops.
Others constrain their suggestions to more focused tweaks to the original game on the theory that the Developers are not going to make sizable changes so we should use any attention the Developers pay to the forum to make a strong case on a winnable issue.
Neither set of ideas is wrong, but arguably the second set is more realistic, especially given what has been announced about AoEDE. However, whether a specific idea falls into one or the other category is often kind of a gray area.