As I said, I understand the position of Sarge and other persons who belong to the first group .
But yeah, I and many strategy players have our preference too . We are attracted to SC, because the rule is simple and we can devote our time to think about strategy not to understand the game mechanism/modelling.
Take for example, TOAW (excuse me, Talonsoft), the interface is simple, you can learn how to attack very quickly, however there is a complex set of rules to understand. I got puzzled when I suffered a big loss when my MBT unit (Attack:32) failed to attack enemy's MBT (Defence:18), before I realized that the Attack factor is an accumulated index. That's just an example.