That should be implemented, stop being old fuks that care about the core being the same. Time for you to grow up.
Stop being a judgemental young brat that does not care about what other people care about, you can make your own butchered version of the game if you want or play wargus, no one is stopping/judging you but it probably wont work...
All we are saying here is that there are people that love war2 the way it is and that although these balance changes could be interesting if done properly.
You probably do not want to butcher the game too much if you want to win most of our current warcraft 2 playerbase over a balance change.
Like Mistral said it will and should stay optional, keeping the changes to custom games/maps is fine!
As I said previously balance is not really as important as nostalgia for many of our players, otherwise gow classic and hsc classic would not be the top played maps over their more balanced versions still...
Maybe we are old fuks but facts are facts gow classic is played by like 80% of the community rest are playing chop farms and has been for ages, does that look like a playerbase that is looking for radical changes to you incos?
You have to respect what your playerbase wants and not ignore the signals they send you. You cannot just say "grow up" when probably 99% of the playerbase is not showing any sign of looking for the changes you want...
I mean look at how unpopular wargus is, yet it has all the modern stuff plugged into it and some pretty cool things too like units life bars, resources bars etc... But it also does not feel like war2 anymore it went too far and most players rather stick to war2.ru...
When they connect to war2.ru people want to play warcraft 2, not Loria, not Wargus, not Age of empire, or Warcraft 3 with a skin... Let that sink in...