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He states himself that it's "a very different game", that he's "a very experienced player and after 20 games he's still getting rules wrong" and that "it's much slower gameplay" whilst simultaneously "games are shorter". He says that new aspects of the rules have slowed it down enough to counteract the streamlining elsewhere.

If you take his words at face value (even ignoring the invalidation of units) he's saying it's botched. His praise is a vague and opaque "it's very good"