Just because longer westernisation is more historically accurate, does not make it 'fair' in game for the player. As somebody who plays mostly non-European countries I am not excited for this change. That is mainly because IMO it will slow the game down massively and I could potentially spend 1/6 or 1/7 of my game time each save just trying to fill a bar up. That is before my tech has even caught up.
Obviously we all need to wait to see how the mechanic plays out because it may turn out to be the Holy Grail of changes but ATM on paper (or internet text
) it seems pretty annoying. .