The Burgundians and Sicilians are really odd civ choices

Europe is cool. European civilizations are cool. But I really think this game could use more non-European civs and, even considering the choice of adding more European civilizations, the Sicilians and the Burgundians are odd choices. Why add the Italian civilization at all if the goal was to break up the Italian peninsula into multiple civs? And the Burgundians were not an empire-civilization like a typical AOE 2 civilization and never controlled a particularly large area.

It is like if, instead of the Spanish, AOE 2 had "the Iberians" as a civilization and then added the Portuguese. The Sicilians ARE Italian. I get that the Kingdom of Sicily was multicultural yada, yada, yada, but so were the Lombardians and the Milanese.

It seems silly to have Burgundians and Sicilians when the Slavs encompass Russia plus a ton of Eastern Europe and there is a single Indian civilization.

There are just so many better options, even if you wanted to stick with Western civilizations. The Georgians! Split the Slavs into Russians and Romanians!

Anyway... I will probably buy this expansion because I want the developers to keep adding content to the game. That said, I really hope they add new non-European civs in the future (assuming they continue adding civilizations). I'd love more African civs but more Asian civs would be cool, too.