[thejeff]

"the only reason why this (magic diversity) matters is because people are too busy working out a bless for their thugs to afford the diversity on their god"

Since most didn't bother using the sacreds in vanilla (or past CBM versions), diversity was never a problem before for Man?
You've only got nature and air above 1! The only other paths you even get at 1 are Earth and Water. Everything else has to come off your god. Not just casting and forging, but also any site searching.
You can't even make air boosters with your nationals. Neither of those paths let you expand into other paths with summons.
Your god can't carry the whole nation.

They're not even the best in their age at either of those paths. Which don't even synergize well.