The point of people having opinions is that they're allowed to be different.If you answered Yes you're lying to yourself.
They did this in VI. That isn't to say it couldn't have been improved, but all the systems were a lot more fleshed out than in V.Why not release the game with all the base features to a really good par and then work on improving it?
VII suffered from being released in an obviously not ready state. Antiquity has always been what the other two Ages should've been, on release.