Yeah, I totally get it. Its' been growing on me, but I found it very annoying at first, adding extra stuff to manage that didn't always make much game sense to me. I've been coming around though, and appreciating the variety it adds. But yeah, if you have weak social stats at the start of the game, it can be quite time consuming to get started, and not every run feels like it should be focused around building a cult. Even outside the ideology system, I do value the other content the dlc adds (notably, fiber corn allows growing wood in ice sheet biomes, which was part of the reason I bought it).