lmao at AI apologists for this game.But hey a good chunk of people are perfectly fine with broken products being released because the expansions will magically solve everything. Right, this is why Civ 5's AI was "fixed" by modders making an entirely new game.

Or maybe I'll get some nonsense about "programming very AI is very hard". Next thing you'll know, a restaurant will serve me a burnt steak, and instead people will tell me I shouldn't complain because 10% of it is edible and being a chef is very very hard, and you couldn't possibly know. And you know, that other person thinks it tastes okay!
Almost as bad as "I can beat the game by whacking the keyboard with a random body part, why is it so easy? And why does nobody take me seriously?"
But this is why we'll never see improvements. Although to be fair, difficulty in Civ has by and large been just piling bonuses on AI anyways, so "challenge" is w/e. However, considering the game cannot even physically win besides time victory even with so many bonuses, well, that's just bad even for this franchise. When it comes down to it, this is by and far the easiest Civ game even with the biggest bonuses given to the AI.... I mean deity bonuses in former games are now on difficulty 6.
BTW, I still love this game. I just don't love stupid arguments that make the AI look smart by comparison.