I also strongly dislike game developers that call stupid AI as a "feature".
Examples?
I remember there being one from the developers of Heroes 5 saying in one of the interviews that "AI should not actually try to fight the player, but "beautifully lose" instead", because apparently the players do not want to actually fight AI, but instead subconsciously want to always win against it.
It was bullshit.
I do agree with his statement to a degree. When I'm playing "Dawn of War: Ultimate Apocalypse" I'm more looking for an overall narrative rather than just beating the A.I. I know the A.I could beat me if I played on harder because it can perform many more actions than I can, also the A.I doesn't get tired of doing the same things.
When I play I look for a narrative. The brave stand off of the Blood Angels vs Tyranids; an endless wave of termagaunts breaking against the walls, turrets and devastators. Something that I can keep going for an hour or so before pushing forwards through the tide to take out the Tyranid base and defeat them. The map speaking of battles that took place at certain locations through the piles of bodies "I remember when those scout snipers got taken out by Lictors", "Those terminators were launched into the middle of the attacking force and held out just long enough to deploy a new beachhead".
The last game I played was me and an A.I as Eldar vs Tyranids. My A.I ally wasn't much help (actually managed to destroy his own base using a massive physic storm) but I held off the endless horde myself with a large wall of turrets, artillery and titans. Sometime into the battle I started teleporting builders onto buildings that were around the enemy base and I began building a webway and turrets there to work as a launching point for a strike team to take out their base.
If the A.I rushes to build carnifexes and then trygons then sure, it will win but I'll be left without a satisfying narrative after only 10-20 minutes, and in this mod it takes about 30-40 minutes to get all the really fun titans and relic units.