Lol. In reality maru is way, way better than serral, reynor, rogue etc. and certainly better than creator. But a 2 base push simply can’t work even if your opponent invest into void rays instead of blink into colossus or any build where you get your colossus out quickly. If you lose to 2 base pushes regarldess of if you took your third base or not you are playing a playstyle where you’re taking a risk in order to make up for whatever advantage your opponent gets with their late game plan, but it’s not necessary, observers and speedlords see everything you can possibly do except for example 4 rax… and if your opponent is going for a 2 base push colossus chargelot just a-moves that utterly while also counter-attacking with a warp prism and it’s not close. And the reason terrans do these pushes is because even at the top level armies with colossi, chargelots, storm, disruptors etc. are stupidly strong and take zero skill compared to the effort it takes to go into late game and fight them, even archon chargelot can just a-move maru. Then protoss gets to tech up to carriers which simply don’t lose to anything at all except mass thor which gets obliterated by immortals utterly, or marines which should not be allowed to kill interceptors because you should be killing them with colossi or disruptors.
We’ve already seen zerg’s sheer dominance over terran in ESL and now only Z and P are left in GSL. Byun got obliterated, clem got obliterated, maru got obliterated despite being objectively much better than anyone else in GSL… and lost 3-1 to harstem proving once and for all that protoss has so, so many tools to win the early-mid game coinflip and destroy terran harass. There’s no way to say protoss can play reasonably and take damage or lose to 2 base pushes after watching that one, and zerg can just take the map and guarantee themselves a win as shown by serral, reynor and dark vs maru while not taking damage because ling-bane utterly overwhelms any push unless you go greedy and speedlords take away the element of surprise, after that you just keep running in ling bane ultra and win… but after 2022 esl and gsl balance defenders are living in a different reality anyway.