If the civ is already competitive and unique enough, adding more would be pointless.
No its not.
No its not. I dont think the extra complexity the devs have been focused on adding to the DE civs has been necessary, but if they make it work alongside simpler civs like Franks, Malians and Slavs I still will be fine with it. We dont need to screw over allthese designs to put the civs in line with the newer ones. Old civs are already in line with the newer ones in the battlefield, with a lot of the simpler civs being way more fun to use.
I can back it with my own civ designs (How many civs total and which? 😱 - #40 by TungstenBoar) which rarely have more than one UU. I have literally 0 bias for India and I love the old civs.
You are just trying to generate conflict with that kind of comment.