I feel we are losing focus there; this is not a rant against CA+SEGA killing modders. This is about a quality review with a great deal of irony in it.

While I am not as strict regarding some issues (like the interface? hobbits? wha?), I can hardly find any flaws in the methodology of the review. It is done well, although the topping (i.e. bitter irony) is somewhat distracting.
AI being unable to rout an army that does not move is one crapy AI.
CAI being sripted to defend and not DOING ANYTHIN for 50 turns is a really crappy AI and a cheat for that matter.
Eliminating fire by rank sound dumb and unrealistic; maybe fire and advance does not work for a unit with good accuracy and reload skill but poor melee ability?
Reload time of a musket being less than 15 seconds is unrealistic and skews the tactics towards the defender.
Musket accuracy being effectively independent of range is not just unrealistic, it is plain dumb.
and so on...

Also, please note that Darth is not comparing NTW to some "perfect game", rather to his own mod "DMUC".