Why is Age of Empires 1 so stagnant?

These features should also be in AoE2:DE:

  • ‘No formation’ command (seriously, why isn’t this already an option?)
    To allow units of different types in a group to move at their own personal speed. Formations are cool, but they could improve. Funny how I requested formations to be implemented this way when in reality, it is not working that way not even in the sequel.
  • ‘Working villager’ selector from the HUD (present in AoE1:DE and AoE3:DE except AoE2:DE)
    So that instead of being forced to select a working villager from the map itself, we can do it from the resources bar.
  • Hotkeys allowed to mass-create units (without having to “mass-use” them)
    So that when we want to create multiple units, we do not have to press and release the respective keys multiple times.
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