Wow, I seriously don't undestand how players can be so blind as to the other ways people play the game. Dessire, if you like levelling up GB to levels 1000+, fighting every battle with Autobattle and 2000% Att/Def bonus and have a billion fp a day, so be it, that's how you like to play the game, I won't rattle on about you.
I, just comes into place, like to play the game in another way. First of all I loved the Oceanic Future, it was one of my favourite eras due to the length, the units and the buildings, I never complained about that, it brought a lot of innovation to the game and much more desired variety to it all. I wasn't complaining about there only being only one building to build, I was complaining buildings were worse that the ones eras before, as, I think you haven't paid it much attention, usually buildings improve as you move up eras, the ones in SAAB did not, and that shocked me; it's only a natural reaction.
Also, not everyone likes to Autobattle everything, I like the strategy part of the game, it's nice to struggle through a battle, plan out the moves, maybe surrender once or twice to try another strategy, also not having 3000% Att bonus and having only 250% makes battles more approachable and not super easy that they are trivial, adding to that that Guild Battlegrounds and the Guild Expedition also are things that take time and aren't super easy for most players, so these new units, as maybe they make everything super automatic for you, for players that don't play like you, they aren't very good, in general, as they offer less range, when range is one key aspect of keeping your units safe, and if you don't have a level 100+ Alcatraz, units can be hard to come by, mainly when you are battling (and in turn, losing) a lot. I'm not bashing the new units for "not being innovating" or stuff like that, they worked on truly amazing animations and designs and that's not something that should be overlooked, they are great in that aspect.
And a final comment, the game has a base, and Event buildings are not a necessity. One can argue if GB's are truly necessary for the game with the Campaign map having so many high Att/Def bonuses in later eras, but Event buildings certainly are not something you must have, they are something you can have. So with that I say, having a base game with so little aspiration in these last two eras within the main city is a bit dissapointing. One can see that they really made a very good effort on developing the colonies, but not much in making you able to develop your city using only SAM or SAAB buildings, and that's the sad part for me, not seeing them care enough about our main city with these eras.