I'm not speaking on behalf of the community, just expressing my personal opinion.
1. Guys, I need simultaneous turn-based gameplay in SoD.
Not in HoTA, but specifically in SoD. Or in HoTA, if it's possible to disable everything that differentiates it from SoD, which, obviously, will never happen.
2. Is anyone willing to collaborate on this? What is your general stance? Can we come to some agreement?
Regarding HoTA:
1. I understand that the product is aimed at new players, or people for whom the integrity and coherence of the product are not as important as they are for me.
2. I don't play and will never play HoTA for one reason: the new features are visually jarring. That is, it's not even about the essence of the new features, but about how they look. A new Castle, new buildings, new artifacts - visually, it looks to me as if (sorry for the pathos) the painting "The Last Supper" was redrawn and another character was added - Buddha, for example... and in a different style...
In general, I want to continue playing SoD with all its reasonable modifications (current and future), but I have less and less time for it every year, which is normal... that's why the issue of simultaneous turn-based gameplay is so important to me (or playing M200% or Arenas :) that's also an option).