Yes, I think the suggestion from the article defeats a lot of why SC2 is a special game. When I played SC2 (many years ago but also many years after the origina

Yes, I think the suggestion from the article defeats a lot of why SC2 is a special game. When I played SC2 (many years ago but also many years after the original release), I lost my first playthrough to the time limit. Despite being conventionally unfun, that loss improved the experience by being a refreshing change from the typical RPG cliche. I hold SC2 in high regard from when I played it back then, but I don't think it aged well. I tried playing it again recently and found the travel to be too tedious. I'm not sure though that it'd be possible to fix SC2's unfun aspects while keeping what makes it special.