After playing a few matches (most of which crashed), I have more thoughts.
It is true that the start of a match feels really, really slow, especially if you start with only slow units. It does feel like it takes ages to get an economy set up as you slowly build Recruitment Centers and dole out your few resources flowing in cautiously. I might not have figured out the ideal balance between when to hoard money to build Recruitment Centers and when to start building another production facility yet (to get Hunters so I can capture more things).
But once you have an economy and funds, the pace is unquestioningly better, you have time to plan a strategy and method for attack, and micro feels more useful and more feasible.
The Dragon is also much better. I think I'm starting to get the hang of dodging rockets.
