Wind of Change

It's clear that this idea wasn't well thought out. It seems like it just came to him in a rush, and Wojciech was the first to "burst" (I'm just kidding, of course).
I think everyone is annoyed by the fact that one player gets control immediately, while others have to go through many rebuilds. This is one of the reasons why Heroes is, to a large extent, a game of luck. And if we even test such a rule as proposed in the first post, after some time people will start to get annoyed, and there will be something like, "He had more resources," or "My mines had 2 piles, and his had 3." Then there will be discussions about how many resource piles can be taken, and so on. As for the mirror map, I'm tired of talking about how it doesn't balance the game at all, especially in HotA. So, everyone should calm down and just play as it is. Otherwise, you can play chess, and even there, white moves first.

Vitaly, what do you mean by the word "balances"? The mirror map provides almost identical starting opportunities, which are only spoiled by a few heroes that stand out significantly in the tavern. The map is very complex in terms of the number of actions, and it offers a lot of room for differences in understanding. As for the favorite argument of some - guessing or not guessing the direction... First, you usually don't go in one direction; second, they are chosen based on the maximum visual potential in terms of visual size, views, overviews, scouting, starting with stables, etc. Of course, sometimes a completely illogical direction can give some kind of advantage, but first, after the removal of control scrolls in HotA, this is still rare, and it's not often that this advantage is completely uncounterable. And second, Heroes is still a game of distance, and some random games can't be avoided on any map, the question is in the percentage of such events.
P.S. I also didn't understand the point about HotA in relation to the mirror map; specifically for this map, HotA is definitely much better than SoD. Because of the Necropolis, yes.