Moderate AI evolves too fast

I tried a match with everything visible just to try learning how the AI plays, and what i discovered is that it's simply impossible to me to beat them. Why? They evolve too fast (really guys, for every one villager i create they already created ten) and this shouldn't happen, because i'm playing on moderate and looks more like i'm actually playing on hard. What you guys think, is the AI difficulty really unbalanced? I personally think it is, because i can play AoE 3 on moderate really well and the difficulty levels on this game increase smoothly instead of the ridiculous gap on Easy to Moderate in Age of Empires 2.