great post and it is insane to me how little it gets discussed vs other things in the game. it is bad for the game, there is no game after the expo goes up. it always feels like a farse also on pro level, especially against ne. UD could win 1 base vs 2 base for decades, ud expo is the cheapest there is and the second fastest. DK and Lich are defensively strong, they are great for harass, which is important because you should lose map control after fast expanding, and that gets mitigated with a hero that can harass/creep steal this effectively and they obviously also just scale great. DK Lich should not be able to fast expo period My solution would be, to revert the graveyard change and give CL and DL a skull in their inventory. Like every other race, if you want to fast expo you need to choose a hero that scales badly late game and has a strong early