REWORK for the Academy. Is it needed or not?

Don't you understand? People have been playing by these rules for years, and everything was fine. And they didn't consider control to be overpowered. But now you come along with your "common sense" and act like you've just discovered that everything that existed was overpowered. So, according to you, all the tournament winners weren't really winners at all, but just lucky people who found a good control strategy!

I understand that another argument of the SoD (Stronghold of the Dragon) supporters has been debunked, those who lament its purity and inviolability! Those who shout the loudest – "leave SoD alone, it's perfect, nothing needs to be changed!"
It has been debunked by the very rules and prohibitions they created, which show that the balance of pure SoD is far from ideal and unplayable at a serious level in its basic version, and they themselves admit this by creating these very rules, but they forgot about at least ONE more thing.

And to your "arguments" about "playing for so many years and everything being fine," I can answer with the same: "in 2000-2005, they also played by their own rules... and also considered them normal for many years," until the understanding of the game changed, and the possibility of improving the game's balance with ERM scripts appeared – I remember going through all of this myself, believe me!