What do the official forums and the fan forums want?

Everything would be fine in SoD on HL templates if there were a Mage Guild rebuild. In SoD, it very often happens that one player cannot get DD, and as a result, loses. For HL templates, this is still very critical.

R55Max, you can argue as much as you want about how SoD is more familiar, native, popular, played by foreigners, etc., but it's foolish to argue that on HL templates it is inferior to the BT version.

On M and L templates there is no dispute; one can play normally in SoD.

Kostya, as for the rebuild, the person who has to rebuild the guild more times will lose. And there is also critical morale, because of which you can lose after losing tempo. Also, you actually have to guess which Castle to build the GM in. If there are 6 castles of one race on the map, the one who guesses the castle wins, not even the one who has the possibility of a rebuild. This is the reality of the game; otherwise, if striving for balance, you would always need to know all the spells in all castles before the start and play an ideal mirror with identical castles. You can play both versions, and practice shows that people play and will continue to play the SoD that exists now, which is perhaps the most important thing, and what's very good is that it's improving in terms of comfort thanks to the MOD! If someone wanted to, they would switch to BT and play there, which is exactly what those who found it necessary are doing. Anyone can try both and make a choice, but combining them is impossible. Like BT based on SoD—there would be opponents not only from the SoD players but also from the BT players. It's naive to think that all SoD players haven't tried BT.
Enough discussing what's better; it's time to think about where to get the money to motivate players to play both versions even if they don't want to. :-D