Yes. Macro removal!

Now I have the reason to play this game back. Macro was the reason why I quitted SC2 in the first place. Dat feeling when you killed opponent's zerg only to see them re- spawned in greater numbers and quality to fight your forces again.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/19850026/...h-255-8-20-2015

The patch is finally up. Macro removal is REAL. Automated tournament feature implemented.

Is that so? I kinda enjoy the no macro games. No more tier 1 unit spamming. I had been watching few high level terran streamers in these few days, and it was interesting. Instead of spamming bios, now the terran actually strategize their attacks by mixing mech and bio together, and it was only 8 minutes game.

I am definitely don't feel the pacing became slower as you thought. Not to mention, harassment is now definitely worth your effort. In HoTS, even if you killed all enemy SCV, it doesn't slowing them down at all because they just spam MULES and win, but now, you really need to protect your workers and at the same time, trying to harass them.