The point is that not all skills should be equally useful and viable. There are bad skills, and there are good ones – that’s normal.
I would slightly expand the classification of skills.
There are weak, strong, and unused skills – the main function of which is simply not used in gameplay. I would like to bring these back into the game.
And if you add diplomacy to this frantic pace (for example, Shakti or Galtaran)?
Fortunately, this doesn’t happen too often.
I have some concerns about Galtaran and thought about adding another condition for joining – “All stacks in the army must have +1 morale or higher.” But a simple condition looks much more elegant, plus tests have shown that it’s not that easy to implement limited diplomacy, and diplomacy for the Necropolis is still rare.
Bringing diplomacy back into the regular game is a bad idea.
P.S.: Therefore, I advise dividing Fresh Mode into two parts: bug fixes, interface, etc.; and gameplay.