What makes you think it is so easy? It still requires a week of being relatively unmolested before a restart can do anything but lemming.

Before these restart changes, once an alliance was tag killed they could not do anything other than be farmland for the remainder of the set. There was no point in playing. I do not see the benefit of moving back closer towards that. The game needs to be more fun to play, and the restart changes are a step towards that.

Older countries are still vastly superior to new restarts. It is not like restarts are killing original countries left and right. The best countries restarts are killing are countries who are sitting on low military because they want to stay in humanitarian range to farm.