But how can teching slow down your spacehip parts? I don't get it.
It can be handy to have some techs at hand for trades too, for the sake of late-game diplomacy.
Cristo Redento!! It would be good if it came a bit earlier but the only advantage it offers comes after you have usually began locking in civics through the UN. That late in the game Spiritual trait just doesn't have much appeal anymore. You are effectively spending all those hammers for a trait that no longer really matters.
What espionage abuse? O.o
Switch into 5 undesirable civics, espionage your enemies into those civics, switch back into the civics you actually want to run.
Too easy.
Meh, all of those still don't offer it any credibility to me. None of those things will help you win the game. Especially, at that point in the game. About the only one being called into question that I would rank along side it is the space elevator. But even then if you can have a GE "pop it" and have aluminum it isn't too bad.
CR sucks even when you have it. At least the SE can speed up a victory in a rare scenario. CR doesn't aid in that. Slave and draft abuse are alright, as they may speed up a domination. But at this stage in the game your domination should be in the bag.
I think the Sophia and the Itza are decent if you can obtain them early. CR and SE can't really offer much even if you attain them "early". This may be a difficulty setting thing but CR just isn't that attractive where it is on the tech tree. Maybe if it came a few techs sooner.
Meh, all of those still don't offer it any credibility to me. None of those things will help you win the game.
Did anyone see that 40 civ RPC with Madscientist? Although it was kind of gimmicky, Internet pretty much won the game for him.
Just because you can't be creative enough to think of ways to use the CR to screw relations to the point of "nobody can declare on the human" doesn't mean that the wonder is useless.
Nevermind that manipulating using it can easily win diplomatic victories outright.
Between anti-war, starting ai-ai wars, and eliciting votes at the perfect time before an election, you can't possibly say this wonder is useless or anywhere near the bottom sludge scrape that is SE. It's in the top half of wonders easily.