Why would they need other people's thoughts when they have plenty of their own?

Don't confuse them with cockroaches.

Well, I don't know, I really liked the closed private beta, but the original – not so much, to put it mildly.

But in the end, the differences between the beta and the original aren't that significant. This is a telling indicator.

Guys, I read what you wrote. Are you really unwilling to pay 400 rubles for the add-on? And even for the pre-order bonuses... Yeah, that's greed.

It's not greed, but rather prudence and a desire not to repeat the same mistakes.
Do you even realize what the Heroes game is all about? It's a game where the main focus is on Online Battles between players. Campaigns, battles against the AI – all of this is just an introductory base, a way to explore the tactical possibilities of the game. Playing against the AI eventually becomes simply boring because it's linear.
Therefore, as Barnabas rightly pointed out, why do we need all these staffs, swords, and other nonsense? To show off to ourselves? If this were some kind of RPG, then the purpose of "art bonuses" could be explained somehow, but in Heroes...

Or the same lightning: Air + Fire; meteor shower: Earth + Fire; regeneration: Earth + Water, etc.

I'm afraid it would make the mages too weak. So, you would have to level up 2 magic schools. In Heroes 3-5, for example, this wasn't always worthwhile, although there all the magic schools are made differently, it seems