vova, you're talking about unification... but do you know what people play worldwide? You need to look at the bigger picture :)
Look at the Chinese, for example, they're very strong and play SOD without any problems... and we're trying to create our own little garden (TE) instead of joining the bigger one :)
It's better to be an expert in one thing... not everyone can constantly learn new things from version to version or play different versions... family or work doesn't allow you to have enough time to play both SOD and TE.
And if you want unification, play what everyone else plays... not just 20-30 people with an old version :)

P.S. This is just my personal argument - you don't have to take it too seriously :)

it's purely personal)))))
and I'm here talking about global trends - a polymer racket was also initially only available to a few, while the vast majority of tennis players used wooden ones :smile13:
and finally, understand this: you don't need to relearn everything for the full game!!!
a simple example: you're playing and don't know about some hero's trick... and then someone reveals it to you (or you see it in a real game) - and that's it, you start using it)))
this is what progress consists of... and the features of TE (for those who might not know - HoMM Tournament Edition was not created out of thin air, but based on the collective and long-discussed recommendations of the best Heroes players of our time) - consider it as the game revealing new facets! :) and this comes from developers who didn't even realize that you could play with chains and 1 stack instead of all 7, or from the best tournament players - I think the latter is even preferable....

in the end, among shooters, there's the classic Half-Life, and there's the cartoonish Counter-Strike...))) so use SOD to camp and destroy swarms of Azure Dragons, but for playing against a real person with a time-playing factor, it's definitely better to use the tournament mod, which is designed for this purpose - the late 3DO simply didn't have the resources and time to bring this to something meaningful, so sorry that TE doesn't have a cool label (if the legendary names behind the innovations don't mean anything to you)))

the saddest thing is that I was forced to say this TE thing - until now, I was personally talking about TE-Lite as a compromise option, necessary for unifying the community... but when they stubbornly repeat that boots are better for running than sneakers just because they were invented earlier and more people wear them!!........

as a final point, I can offer any SOD supporter a duel offline on SOD! :) offline - because even with fixes, online still depends on how the game unfolds... but offline, the conditions are absolutely identical, and it's closer to the campaigns! This may not prove anything, but at least it will illustrate that the desire for new things does not kill the mastery and love for traditional tools - after all, we are all grateful to SOD for what it brings us and will continue to bring :)