I think that what is being said is that the variety of units has had to be dulled down in competitive games. I have heard people say that this makes it easier to watch but there is still a lot of complexity in the game with three races and all their differences.

If you want to try out all sorts of units, there are a ton of custom games where you can use every unit available.

For me, the game is the best in many years and has been keeping me going for 8 months now - there are all sorts of different things to do from ladder, custom games and private matches between friends.

Brilliant game, brilliant design and a great deal of fun for me..

One of the biggest problems I have ever run into is the Manager who came from a technical background and tries to retain some kind of technical information lead over the staff. Often they can't be across day to day things so they become an information hider or feel threatened by technical staff around them.

In IT, information hiders in a team are pain, when they are the manager they are a nightmare. The best managers I have had were people managers who used to team and what it achieved to make themselves look good. In some ways, they best managers are those that accept that they might not be as technical as some staff, get over it and get on with managing the team.

Liferay is another product like this.

It started as a nice feel open source project. There was available paid support if you wanted/needed it. Then it went to a dual release of an enterprise version and a "community version" with all sorts of promises that nothing would change. The level of marketing then also seemed to go into over drive - to get the enterprise version.

It then became obvious that the community version, is full of bugs, gets no bug fixes and is released only once a year.

It has gone from a good, usable open source product to a really cranked up commercial product. It's open source true but this is more a marketing tool than a reality of an open project where everyone can contribute.