A popular esports caster said the following a few days ago, and it really got stuck in my head:

> "We can't have new games like Brood War anymore, because devs would patch out everything that's fun about it in a few days."

Please get the designers away from the spreadsheets and in a game. Trade some of that polish away for a soul. Delegate more responsibility to junior people, instead of forging them into (strictly inferior) clones of the senior staff.