We keep dancing around the fact that home islands need to get bigger. The demolish rock concept acknowledged this, but again it was decided it would be far easier to invent more buildings than to give anyone space to put them.
Just when people got used to the fact that certain buildings/chains had to be demolished, the current system is announced, and we will now let you have a couple of weeks to move buildings around to make room for more buildings.

Yes the game needed to evolve, we needed lvl 50+, we needed bigger islands/discoverable land mass, we needed more adventures.
What we didnt need was a second army that costs an absolute fortune to build in relation to the rewards offered, and a secondary battle system that is clunky and very alien to the sister system it runs alongside.
Currently I stand to spend close to 20k iron bar to gain +176/6hr iron ore for 7 days - Thanks, but I will just buff my arctic iron mine.

10 points for effort - missed on this one unfortunately.