When the resulting system doesn’t play exactly as humans do, or in a way that would be easy for humans to replicate, to me it doesn’t seem so-obvious-that-you’re-being-deceptive-if-you-don’t-notice-it that this is “unfair” and that you should go back to the drawing board with your handicapping system.
This is not the complaint that people (including me) have. Instead the complaint is that, given it’s clear that AlphaStar won mostly through micro, that graph highlighted statistics (i.e., average APM over the whole game, including humans spamming keys to keep their fingers warm) that would be irrelevant to SC2 experts for judging whether or not AlphaStar did win through micro, but would reliably mislead non-experts into thinking “no” on that question. Both of these effects should have been easy to foresee.
This is not the complaint that people (including me) have. Instead the complaint is that, given it’s clear that AlphaStar won mostly through micro, that graph highlighted statistics (i.e., average APM over the whole game, including humans spamming keys to keep their fingers warm) that would be irrelevant to SC2 experts for judging whether or not AlphaStar did win through micro, but would reliably mislead non-experts into thinking “no” on that question. Both of these effects should have been easy to foresee.