A fundamental issue about forcefield

This is nothing new and this has been the case all along
this has been an ongoing thought of many progamers for quite a long time but i thought like posting about it now because of some games were seeing in the wcs tournament in china

the issue is regarding ZvP at given point of the game, but more heavily before infestors or broodlords are out. in other words normally prior the 12 minute mark for infestors and 16 minute mark of broodlords.

Protoss player needs great micro, zerg needs protoss not to have
the issue is really not that complicated, its very hard for a zerg player to win a fight by having superior micro than his opponent. in a classic zvp fight, it only comes down to the skill and micro of the protoss player. (ofcourse there is a lot of skill involved where zerg chooses to pick his battles and so forth, but what im talking about is the actual battle and not where or how its initiated).

if both players micro badly, lets say the forcefields are late and/or missing and zerg is just amoving without any target fireing etc - the zerg almost always totally destroys the battle.

if both players micro absolutely beautiful, forcefields cut out the perfect amount of zerg units outside range of the protoss army and lets perfect amount of zerg units inside the forcefields doomed to die. the actual zerg micro is not really relevant during a fight, he move commands into the protoss and crosses his fingers his opponents micro wont be godly. once the forcefields are declared the room zerg has to micro is to target fire down the most potent units as much as possible while hes rapidly losing his units inside the forcefields.

so if you compare both of the races in such a situation, the zerg doesnt really have a lot of room to preform great micro, at same time zerg has little to no room to !@#$ up during the engement.
where as a protoss players micro control can be everything from god awful and lose his entire army in a snap second to executing perfectly and absolutely destroys the zerg army losing close to nothing.

"I have to learn actually micro while you a-move" "well at least you can micro"
this is very frustrating for both sides of the table. the protoss is unhappy because his micro control has to be spot on to be able to keep up with a zerg that doesnt really need great micro. and a high level zerg player feels helpless to outplay his opponent because he feels he has not enough opportunities to stand out from a lesser zerg player.

Closing the distance
there has been many ways zerg players has tried to close the distance and put their faiths into their own hands trying to win engements by their own micro control and not relying on protoss microing poorly with burrow movement roaches and overlord drops.
both of these tools were absolutely amazing for a period of time - but eventually protosses found micro techniques and ways to about it to counter these tools.
against drops they would normally put down forcefields and snipe an overlord at a time while kiting backwards. the overlords were simply too fragile and slow to ever catch up with the kiting protoss army.
against burrow movement the protoss would do a similar technique. they would wait for the roaches to come out or close to passing the initial forcefields, then proceed to back off with their units slightly and put down a new layer of forcefields.
the roaches end up being prisoned from surface by the forcefields, stuck under the ice in other words

from this we see alot of protosses on the absolute top level of play "abuse" the fact that their micro control is so good, so strong that they feel immortal from dying as long as they are attacking in the right timing windows.
the build everyone is thinking of already, im sure - is the famous 3immortal allin warp prism (10:30~) but also the classic "timing before broodlord" which is more of a playstyle than a build.
both of these timings share a very similar key to success, the lack of zergs ability to close the distance between the zerg and protoss army because of forcefield.
3base infestor can come out at different timings - sure its possible to get infestors out by the time such an immortal allin would strike, but that doesnt change the fact that if zerg doesnt have infestors, prior statements written in this post remain true - zerg feels helpless against perfectly controlled protoss army. the meta game were in right now, zergs dont simply go this quick infestors because of their fear to get killed by different builds than the 3immortal allin (there are alot of strong timing attacks from protoss prior 10:30 that would destroy a zerg cutting corners to try to get to infestors out earlier).

the timing attack before broodlord is very loose on when its hitting, because its much later timing. protoss is on 3bases and zerg is on 4, usually all games look slightly different but this timing normally always exists and every top protoss player knows by now - they need to kill zerg before broodlords are out. why that is exactly i wont go into. this topic is about forcefield and not the well-known problematic lack of protoss lategame options against a zerg.

zerg will have infestors out - sure, and corrupters are flying they dont care about forcefields. thats true as well.
but the thing that you need to keep in mind is, once you get enugh colossus you just kind of destroy infested terrans without a problem (the magic number for this timing is usually 3).
forcefields not only prevents the zerg army from engaging, they help a ton to prevent the perfect fungals from going down, and when fungals can only hit a colossus and 3~ gateway units its not nearly as effective anymore.
the corrupters are usually a great tool, if you get fungal on a colossus simultaneously sending in the corrupters to pick that colossus off - youll kill it with ease. but most of the times that is not the case. another thing to keep in mind is most of the times zerg will not even have corrupters out at this time, and if they do they wont really have a sufficient number to survive the stalker fire while trying to kill the colossus.
its safe to say by now the timing before the broodlord is a very sticky situation for both where a lot of dancing is done through fungal corrupter colossus stalker. but the ground army is almost not relevant at all because of forcefield.

Nothing dies, then suddenly everything dies
when protoss gets enough sentries for forcefield, zergs army becomes kind of useless. the second forcefields run out for protoss, the protoss army gets easily run over and killed without a chance

Its all about the force fields
i think forcefield takes too heavy weight in this matchup. and i hope blizzard agrees with me. i want a zerg with great micro control to find ways to deal with the forcefield and i would love if the protoss army wouldnt completely get rolled without relying on forcefield. it is very uninteresting at times in these top level pvz games perfect forcefields keep the protoss army invournable and as soon as they run out - the toss dies.

Where is the first step? Is there one? Maybe its even too late
i know its not an easy fix. because force field has been the word in zvp for all this time its hard to imagine the things needed for a protoss player to beat a zerg army without a huge wall of forcefield unabling the zerg to actually attack the protoss army. zerg unit nerfs? protoss buffs? how will any of this work in other matchups?
its also hard to find the best ways to able zerg through micro control to close the distance.
what should be changes, forcefield, tunneling claws, overlord drops something new entirely? i dont know

keep in mind, i dont want forcefield to be removed from the game, i think its awesome. i just think it has way too big weight in the matchup and there are some huge issues that come from it.

its very clear at this point, not addressing the issue is probably the easiest way to go about it. is this really a fundamental flaw that needs to be adressed? is it really that bad that zerg players cant show off great micro while protoss is required to? its to each his own but i definitely think this is one of the hugest problems in this matchup for a very long time and frankly im quite sick of it. each time i win a zvp engemenent theres a voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me "you won because the protoss %^-*ed up". never am i thinking what i did great, perhaps because i didnt