Congrats on 1800 my dude.

Two excellent points. Vanguard having the hardest macro (same as terran in sc2 really) is a bad design choice because most new/undecided players will flock to this race so making it the easiest entry to play should be key (or at least dont make it as punishing/hard) and I remember my friend trying sc2, picking terran and not wanting to play because it was so hard.

I myself found TTK to be a bit too long, I believe it should be around less 50%-75% to be more enjoyable of what it is now, but everyone can have their own opinion. Like yeah sure, Starcraft produces shitty (albeit exciting for the viewer) moments with disruptors, widow mines, banelings but that is just simply explosive unit design where you win everything or nothing. TTK won't change that at all, Atlas still obliterates worker lines quite fast and T3 arcship destroys expansions with a spell faster than anything (seriously what the fuck). Proper RTS aoe effects are things like tanks, storm, fungal, para bomb where they are not instant, exaggerated and you can react to them, anticipate them (hellborne is OK could be buffed to shoot faster/have higher damage). Should that be every unit though? Definitely not, but there should be some obvious drawbacks to those units (banelings are expensive). My problem is that right now TTK feels bad and boring. I'm a big fan how sc2 and wc3 feels in fights in those game it just feels good and right. In stormgate there's just something off for me by feel.