No, destroy the enviroment is part of civilization development.
1/nope you play AoE 2 there is basicly deforestation simulator. There is worst because you need replant the games.
2 there among are insane don't have sense. I'm not sure if affects gameplay but change whole meta because the enviroment beauty? I don't see that.
Another restriction, I don't like the game have this kind of restriction, we did this with tower and fortress but with barrack I don't see the point. Mostly player don't like the restrictions, even some players complains about territory restriction.
I have some close idea.
yes I did I don't like some implementations in DE, like Glory resource, get the game a feeling like AoM.
or the unbalanced imperial Rome. I love keep the 0 A.D feeling.