VII announces another barebones update to salvage this sinking ship
> Shill youtubers makes videos and after video how this is a MASSIVE CHANGE THAT SAVED THE GAME
> Patch comes, the player count bumps for a week and returns to lose hundreds of players every week
rinse, repeat.

Why do they even release civ games?
6 was terrible and now they made 7 which is even more terrible. Not to mention 5 which is a downgrade from 4, but that can be forgiven since it's more accessible while also not being such shit as 6

get rid of the nigger representing america or i'm not playing it. it's as shrimple as that.

It's funny, this game is damned if they do, Damned if they don't.
If they remove the civ-switching, it's current playerbase of loyal fans who defended this game against it's evil "boomer haters" will feel angry and betrayed that they caved in to the "toxic" people, but if they don't nix the civ-switching the game will continue it's slow march towards having barely any players with nobody to buy the newest DLC.