What you are describing does not sound like an aoe game to be honest. Also, not many games reach a point where you max your population. 50 more would not make much of a difference imo.I've some reason totally lost interest in the game now. Can't find myself wanting to play it.
I think in reality, I'd like a much slower longer term version of aoe, where you play it over many sessions to create a large empire.
200 map limit, and the maps not being that big, really are a shame imo.
Aoe2 had 250 limit. Aoe4 all these years later has just 200.