I'm sure if I had tried to play the game using only 5 guilds and 30% towers all age I would also complain about how low and inconsistent the training of wizards was, but maybe, just maybe I should realice at some point I'm playing it wrong and that I need to adapt. No amount of activity put into the game would change that fact right?

The low spawn rate of scientists would be equal to run 1-2 guilds all age.

What I see as the main critisism of the new science system is 1 it is random, and 2 I can no longer play the way I did before, that is if boiled down as much as possible.

My answer is if it is random that some ends up with 45 and others with 80 professors then it takes skill to adapt so the 45 scientist province can make up for the diffrence and still beat the 80 scientist province either by getting more via abducts or beeing better at distribution and building their province.

To the opjection that they can no longer play their province the way they did before my answer is find a new way of playing it, this in my oppinion takes more skill than playing your province the way you have always played it.

I don't care how many crowns someone got or how many top kingdoms they boost of playing with, if you can not adapt to new changes then you can go sit in the corner along with all the other dinosaurs and cry your eyes out. We all know what happened to the dinosaurs in the end.