I recently played against a player who beats almost everyone in Versus... he plays on unlimited. Balance, 2nd week, he has Valya with a bunch of parameters, 65 Marks and 5 Grand Griffins, two Consorts on the reserve (2-4 and a tier 3), and I only have a standard Rampart army and 3 Angels. He surrendered, didn't dare to take Consorts on the 2nd turn...
And I saw his last moves... he moved each hero one cell at a time... slowly. You can see how his "brain is creaking" :)
IMHO, this is a mockery of the opponent, and as Ikhtiandr said, quality will turn into quantity.
We don't need that kind of gameplay (quote).
P.S. I don't have the HD mod and don't even know what speed boosts it gives compared to SOD and Lighter ;)
Just when you play 2v2 and after 1 minute of the game, you're already comfortably controlling eight heroes, then after 2 minutes... ;)