Best alternative to Civ: Fallen Enchantress or Endless Space?

Galactic Civ II, despite glowing reviews, has a game-breakingly bad series of design decisions that make it horrible:

1. You set your "focus" on an empire wide basis. So planet specialization is sort of out the window because apart from minor emphasis buttons, most of your production/research is set in a macro slider. If you have 50% of your production going to military in the slider, even your planets with 5 research labs will be devoting approximately half their effort to building ships.

(I already hate this decision as city specialization was a major part of Civ IV, so nice to go back to the days of infinite cities all identical to each other. But this is only the first of many problems)

2. Excess production does not overflow from one build to another. So if you end up putting 179 production into a ship costing 90 production, congratulations! You just threw away 89 production. (This is like 1992 level 4x game design bad. Sid Meier learned you had to do overflow by the time Civ 2 came out ffs. So dumb, especially when you can't even micromanage your planets to avoid it)

3. You pay for everything. Every point of production you make costs you 1 bc. You know where this is going. You don't get refunded for your wasted production. So in addition to wasting 89 production in the prior example, you also spent 89 bc to do so. Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?

I'm seriously annoyed with this. Choices 1 and 3 I can live with and they make the game "different". Choice 2 is indefensible and makes the other choices indefensible as the sum is lesser than its parts.