Which Might and Magic universe are you referring to?

For me, it is primarily important that the gameplay serves the plot, and not the plot serves the gameplay and "balance."

And for me, it should all be a unified whole. If everything falls apart, then that's a problem.

there are no TRs where the plot base is not visible at all

Pha! Believe me, if there were TRs instead of Lamas, they would also write 3-4 meaningless sentences about them, just like with Lamas, and you would defend them too.
I'm not against something fresh, but why introduce this freshness instead of things that work well? No one says anything about the fact that slow, fat zombies have become flimsy, fast, damage-dealing ghouls. The appearance, stats, and name have been changed. But it worked because the zombies were useless. But here, unfortunately, it didn't work, because successful units were replaced.

These very Lamas add a touch to the image and history of the mages.

Which are not even in the game...

then you need to avoid clichés

Proof, where I wrote this, please. Otherwise, it's a lie and provocation. In general, take a look at post #100 in the topic; I wrote about this there.

Meatballs are NF, and flies are fantasy; I prefer to see them separately.

I'm explaining this for you... The example with "War and Peace" was an analogy to your phrase. You didn't grasp the history of the ancients, but rather its description by Demilich, that is, a rather boring retelling. And that's why you like the story of Ashan, because you played the 5th and 6th games, and you liked them. The question is in the presentation, not in the essence. You didn't like the presentation of the story, and that's why you didn't grasp it. If you had played all of Might and Magic and Heroes 1-4, you would look at it differently, wouldn't you? I'm not saying, "immediately vote for the old universe," I'm saying that since you are not familiar with the old universe, it is not up to you to judge, is it?

And I just don't like it when "authoritative opinions" are expressed, such as "stupidity," "nonsense," etc., without specifying: "in my humble opinion (imho)."

I read your posts in the topic, starting from page 6. I didn't find "imho" anywhere...