I distinctly remember playing Red Alert 2 with my father. It was a lot of fun to discuss strategies and pick his brain as a child.
I liked Starcraft 2, but I think Blizzard needs some competition.
It would provide another dimension to the game play.
You could do the same thing to a human opponent in some of those games, or they to you, so in practice you had to micromanage some things like fights in order to kite or retreat effectively.
When I got out of college I had a brief fantasy of trying to consult doing game AI but the whole field cratered and I had no idea if I actually had an aptitude for it, and I got busy doing other kinds of “serious” work.