[HoneyBadger]

AI isn't people, fortunately. It's going to be limited however you look at it. It's also not realistic to suppose that Illwinter and Stardock would corroborate on a Master of Magic sequil or clone-for one thing, Stardock tried to buy the rights to MoM and the holding company made things too difficult, so they aren't doing that anymore.
I do think that if Illwinter went to Stardock with Dom3 that there'd be a very good chance for the two to get together, and once that happened, for really good things.

Besides, I completely agree with the opinion that, not only is Dom3 not MoM, it should not be MoM. Historically, it's a lot closer to Fantasy Generals or maybe King's Bounty. While I wouldn't mind a very little bit more infrastructure-building (I think the presence of a Forge would compliment the Temple and Lab and add the possibility of some advanced troops, and maybe be used to expand magical forging and the game's economics) I don't want to see the game turn into a Christmas train-set of buildings that only exist to explain why I'm able to produce troop type Q.