Hello guys!
Well DE has problems still, but some things are just great improvements over AOC/HD.
The things I love the most are in decending order
What do you like the most yourself?
Auto farm reseed, was absolutely needed lol.
Queueing Technologies, upgrades.
Matchmaking to play vs people with your level.
Choosing your avatar.
Map previews.
Integrated ladder.
New Campaigns and civs.
The events, while some hate them, I personally find it interesting, and some mods obtained here are useful for gameplay (The Gunpowder tracer thing for example).
The graphics. So much better than previous versions. 
The longer civ jingles are a nice touch as well. 
I also much prefer the current AI. 
That’s all I can think of that hasn’t already been said.
Oh yeah, I forgot about auto farm reseed 11
The AI was available on UserPatch also, but yeah, it’s great.
In terms of artwork, i really like the signs for each civ and the ingame GUI artwork for each civ.
It’s so chill go just look at the score and know the civs of all players.
i actualy dont like the removal of scaning for units. i felt it was an interesting and enjoyable part of the game like so many other legacy bugs such as mangonel deletion
That should be fix ASAP
Quite interesting that many people think, that house scanning was an enjoyable part.
As a player i did not like it, because it’s so apm heavy.
And as a viewer neither, because I love sneaky xbows and escapes and hiding of army so much 