This is one thing I will never understand when it comes to the HotS dev cycle.
In the beginning, the Elite AI was good enough to cover for Cloud9 in a big HGC game with lots of money on the line when a team had no pauses left & a teammate disconnected.
Then it gradually got worse. So they hired a biology major to work on the AI in 2019-2020 and it got even worse.
Then the AI development got completely abandoned in an awful state.