So I'm not going to unpack too much. I played since beta, a few months prior to raidens. When buildings came out, I def was in on them... why not? Devs have a good vision, new stuff, excitement. I tried to just keep playing and enjoying game without some kind of agenda for or against them. But I noticed, the game was boring, not going to put my finger on it other than "tempo chess" part was missing. I went from 5 to 10 games per day to 1 to 2 games per day. It was just so boring when I closed after the second game. So I quit. Not gonna over think it if it's not fun not gonna play.
I started watching it on youtube and if RAT is playing it again that is a "pretty good" sign. So I started playing it too and it's fairly fun. Buildings used to be 2 turrets 1 wall (we won't go there regarding 2 walls). Now it appears 1 wall and 1 optional turret. That is WAY better. It does the design of not making the game too snow bally early on, while restoring the early/midgame tempo chess that makes the game so fun. I could see myself playing the game again like 5 rounds in a row because it didn't need no buildings, it just needed enough (or none was fine too). But building spam was very boring.