It's kind of sad to see Blizzard take several steps backwards in some areas of their game development. Some of the developer perceptions are so disjointed from the user base's.

However, there are very few games with the level of replayability that broodwar/wc3 had because of battle.net and custom maps. To think, even with a shitty battle.net, the replayability factor is still really high because of the polish and production they put into their games.