Game Breaking Issues?

How did these ever get past Beta?  These are just issues that should have never made it out of Alpha.  Threads on these issues are blowing up.  Are there others?  Did these issues ever come up in Beta?  It seems to me the Beta testers really missed the boat on these. 

• No Random map (terrain layout) generation.
• Units Stack for combat calculations (which would make stacks much > single powerful units).

I haven't purchased the game yet but I'm strongly leaning towards not doing so.  These are core game mechanics, not usually relegated to being fixed with a patch, which makes me think they never will be.