PC gamers in the mid-to-late 90s apparently started turning up their noses at turn-based strategy games in favour of the new hotness of the Command & Conquers and Warcrafts of the day
A review of X-Com Apocalypse from the time:
"to be honest, the new real-time combat is so good I really can't see why anyone would want to play the much slower (and often infuriating) turn-based tactical game"
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That's like preferring Diablo over Fallout
Since you ranted about sins, I'd like to add how utterly janky the "culture" or whatever they call it mechanic is. Apparently an utterly devastated planet with no population left on it after an annihilating bombardment still needs The Unity to send endless broadcasts to it until it can be reoccupied.