Wind of Change

Why should the weakening be indirect rather than direct?

And you yourself adhered to the idea that the game should be saturated with additional measures rather than being cut down.

What are reserve regiments?

That was even in school history pictures, just an analogy (for when main forces are depleted)

Introducing additional features into the map is difficult and not particularly welcomed by many, for example you.

No problem, only who will do it. And I've never been an opponent, but a critic - yes.

Well, while sm-s were playing, there was no imba. On hl+u the imba is obvious without rebuilding.

Everything played perfectly in vt. But that has its own gameplay.
And here the imba is not obvious. It's just a type of gameplay

Many say there is, I also believe there is. You yourself don't deny it, you just consider the existence of an imba to be normal.

For the tenth time, I will list more imba things - KS, cloak of renunciation, logistics, Crag-Tazar (on some templates), roads to nowhere, bugged passages, cons, hives, Dragon Utopia, 7th level neutrals, and on top of that relics or pandoras with magic over 20 from denders.
In your opinion and the opinion of others, everyone should be given the full set at the start and just play. Such a mechanism exists in linear games - Dotas and Warcrafts, but you don't play those. It's fully present there.
Any random game must have an imbalance - that is the driving force of a fun, exciting game. But you are trying to turn Heroes into a convenient pocket toy where it has long been necessary to click the mouse very quickly (this really puts me off - you win seconds here, and then lose hours in restarts, correspondence, arguments) and try to make a name for yourself in it

Your argument, as I understand it, is that a weak player should have a chance to miraculously beat a strong one. I disagree with this argument; I believe that a weak player should either become stronger and fight the strong, or play with equals for fun.

You have to play with what was dealt. And take fewer restarts, especially powerful ones (as encountered). Maretti didn't complain for some reason, Homungulus didn't either. At the same time, they show a very high level of play. That means they have enough arguments for victories, don't they? Unlike those constantly begging here.
Yeah, give everyone three cons, a couple of hives per respawn (must be mirrored), and Dimension Door with fly and Town Portal with 5 uses per game. And then suffer. But then it will be - white starts and wins.