Actually i agree on the part of stop adding stuff to aoe II, this game has changed too much and for the worse compared to the original game, people around barely knows enough of the game mechanics to understand how much have they changed and broke the game, in a small comparison there used to be 5 Dominant civs in AOC, now we have like 15 broken civs just in terms of balance, the game is so poor balanced that all tournaments needs to use DRAFT system so the players do not pick the same civs and that is basically the only reason why you see variety in such events.
I am glad that those civ petitioners got what they deserved with a new campaign DLC, i just hope the addition of the new data mod doesn’t break up the base game.