They have to do something. The current blobosphere is boring, requires no skill and makes every single game exactly the same. After years of balancing, this is the best they could come up with...
What makes me wonder is that they've spent years and years balancing the game, fixing things and introducing new mechanics and did all this only to make blobbing the most viable, easy overall strategy in the game? It's ridiculous how stupid the devs can be. That takes special kind of stupidity.
I kinda was hoping for Dawn of War 3. After seeing how they're able to ruin games by "balancing", I just want Relic gone