Competitive games like Go are most enjoyable when people all agree on the same rules, when losing grants you no excuses to salvage pride at the cost of the victor. For this to work, the rules must be unambigious. You either broke them and are a cheater and the match is invalid, or you exploited them and won fairly.

Go works quite well with rules that aren't unambiguous. Especially the Japanese Go rules have their quirks.

As far as Warcraft III goes, I played the game ages ago, in a clan the year before Frozen Throne came out.

Back in the day you could hide building in the woods to drag on a game an additional 10 minutes against a lot of opponents with the hope that the opponent leaves the game out of boredom.

On the other hand I have no problem with the idea of tower rushes.

You can't really test "Is this a good stratregy" against a scrub, because often it will be a bad strategy but it's against their code so they won't have learned the counter to it, and it will work on them.

I you are a good player in Warcraft you can win with any strategy against bad players.

mostly in the mid levels of the skill hierarchy, or "ladder"; the low skill people are trying to learn, the high skill people got that way because they don't self-handicap, but the mid skill people want to imagine themselves as high skill people but with honor

I don't think that you become good at Warcraft by practicing tower/tank to perfection.