Where's the hype around the upcoming handicap-feature? It's potentially the best thing ever added to the game.

We can finally play against our friends again!

AoE has such an immense skill cap that just 100-200 Elo difference in skill basically means it doesn't make sense anymore to play against each other. Right now, you can play against like 1-5% of the playerbase an interesting game. If you have any friends who are a little bit more or a little bit less familiar with the game, you can't play against each other anymore.

I was always wondering why something like that isn't in the game, it is so obvious somehow. And now it will be just silently added. I'm really happy about it.

I think there are other RTS that have this feature, right? Does it not work well? Or do people just hate playing with a handicap? I was really surprised that in the thread about the changes, hardly anyone was talking about it, as if it's a minor comfort feature.