Except this is not food and they under no obligation to please your desires.
Some functionalities have issues for all DE titles, they are behind old engines that can’t cope, they still work better than most new RTS games out there.
Your community’s history, oh boy… I remember way before DE when I wanted to try AoE3 and was met with complete childish, entitled and toxic behaviour in those eso forums. That was a wild place. Not as bad as SC2, but still shameful. I always wondered why is it that AoE3 has such a toxic community, full of flamers and trolls, why cant we have a nice one like in AoE2. Now i know that it’s just about different generations of gamers. Anyway, gave up on AoE3 but came back to it with the DE version, since DE fixed one of its biggest flaws, and although game still remains deeply flawed at its core I wanted to try enjoy it regardless since it’s an Age game after all. But then I was met with the same toxic environment as before, nobody grew up.
And someone mentioned pro scene ignored in AoE3. What pro scene? No 1 player is a cheater, everybody is flaming each other. You cant have that, sponsors wont like it. There is no pro scene there. You might have better luck with AoE1.