Wind of Change

The idea of making it more difficult to obtain or use control abilities has a fundamental flaw: it increases the length of matches, and they are already not short.

Therefore, in HotA, the idea was more about adding new control spells to Fire and Water, and either not touching the existing ones at all or slightly weakening them (e.g., making them slightly more expensive in mana or slightly more expensive in moves, or reducing the range of the damage spell, or limiting the number of teleports per day, or something else). There was also the idea of giving wings a basic Fly ability instead of an expert one.

That is, control should be obtained in the same timeframe (or even faster), but the fact of having control should not lead to such a gap in pace with those who do not yet have control.