Yeah , I've noticed quite a few such oddities .

One of the anoying "features" is that the A.I. Spain , France and Great Britain {whom they had better nerf before they fix naval invasions or it will simply walk over all other A.I. factions unless they dogpilie it} automatically get their colonies in America {New Spain , Lousiana and 13 Colonies} somewhere around turn 10-20 {seems turn 15 on average} seemingly without having to do a damned thing to earn them .
This makes playing France a touch untenable {the fight over America was far from one sided} unless you play France rather cheesy for the first 10-20 turns . I hate games that force you to "mini-max" and such .

I hope they get those damned mod tools out soon so I can fix the giant pile of W.T.F.s {I was going to list some examples here , but where does one begin !} .












Where are my mod tools ?