In my opinion it's just a thing you see with most of the games today, they make it easy 'for everyone', a game for the masses. Often people don't have the time and/or don't want a learning curve, this is just how a game sells better, when things get more easy, mostly you don't hear many people complaining, except of course if you have some old civ players / hardcore gamers who like to put allot time in a game.
The last few years it's hard to find any really good games for the PC, we now got BIG game makers who just bought other game makers, where it just becomes more and more important to make allot of money, so we now lack SPIRIT/Love when they make games these days. But this is just how pathetic our western civilization has become these days; we sell things on the cheapest way possible! (you can read that as cheap womans who sell their body's)

So you see this just everywhere, music, movies, you name it.
Of course I know they put allof of hard work making this game and many many will be happy with this game. Maybe me too later, I try..