"It’s backwards"
You should use thinking skills and offer logical arguments, instead of baseless emotional statements.
"retal time and defender pro time are the same making retal rights impossible"
That isn't logical. By the very definition, the retal is made possible because it's the same time as protection. Maybe what you mean is "I can't pretal-retal and that's the only way I can win".
"Obviously has been abused immediately"
Nope, it hasn't at all. Again, use critical thinking before making false statements.
"Castle passing wasn’t that big of a problem"
How many threads were started on the forum in the last 2 months just about castle passing? Again, your statement doesn't match reality.
"top players will be too hard to ever beat"
So the top player will be making big attacks every day, those are each opportunities for retals. Again, offer logical arguments and not emotion driven opinion.
"attacker will always have the advantage"
The point of the game is to attack and make war, it's not Farmferr - which is another thing people complained about when it was better economically to turtle and just farm for growth, NOW we're back to war being favored, seems that's what everyone wanted based on polls.