This is the oldest game I played without having played it as a kid first, and I was extremely pleasently suprised of how well it aged. Qality of life features that make RTS less frustrating to play (remember Dune2?) are already there.
You can queue orders and attack move is by default. In fact, for most actions you can just click (and have to option to use left or right click). There are also keyboard shortcuts, although not specified, still intuitive. Maybe I just need to read the manual.
Clicking on the minimap doesn't change the view but actually selects the pixel you clicked on, so you can macro just from the minimap if you have perfect precision.
The pacing is pretty slow, walking and building are slower than i'm used to these days, otherwise it would've been a great competitive game even after close to 30 years.

9/10

Often overlooked due to Command & Conquer and Warcraft dominating the market, but I consider it the superior RTS game from that era due to the combination of scale, scope, mechanics, and execution.