ALSO though, from what I assume Sie Sayoka was the first person to use DA spawners, and even more so 3D terrain. It's arguable that anyone that used any terrain even a bit 3D (like Age Of Skorm and Vrael) at least borrowed the idea from Sie. That aside, Laura I find has a perfect reason.
Sayoka is not capable of making the innovations you have credited him with. The Dark Archon spawners were not his idea. All terrain in Age of Skorm or Vrael's maps is made using WoodenFire's blends, which have been compiled by Shmidley into a Jungle Terrain Index map. WoodenFire should receive all credit for pushing extended terrain blending on the Jungle tileset.
And I do not find that she rips of Vrael, especially considering her damn map came way before Feyvern did.
I listed Vrael and/or PhantomSkyfire since I could not remember which triggers Laura used. Its still not any work on Laura's part.
Excalibur is quite good at terrain.
Not according to him, myself, and by extension any of the original talented terrainers.
Now, I can see why you say against my choices, everyone has a difference in opinion. But it appears you yourself are quite absent in facts as well, and clearly it's foolish to say a "One Hit Wonder" deserves to be here as opposed to someone which actually shaped how SC Rps are today.
One hit wonders have shaped SC RPs. If you want to track the most widely hosted maps, it would go something like this:
Leader--Mad--
(Last Stand, others?)Zenithan
(Realm of Antioch)Volcove99
(Sacred Realm, Volc's World series)Sie_Sayoka
(Mrekalis, Faol)Shmidley
(Antiem, Treboria)PhantomSkyfire
(Ticondera)Vrael
(Feyvern)GERP and Urban Warfare were hosted a lot. I have not tracked modern/future RPs very much.
If you want to talk about innovation...
Zenithan popularized the Observer spawner.
Volcove created the first spawner mover, popularized the inclusion of sound, bombs, and explosion effects.
Freedumb was the first to allow extensive building disabling.
Beardo had the first multi-unit spawns.
Shmidley had the first extensive use of AI Scripts, special terrain modification, modifiable option cooldown and spawner choice, working portals, and popularized un-abusable ban options.
El_Lord.Dragon had the first use of Place COP beacons to start out a map.
TK(o)Archangel had the first "quick" options.
Big(HC)duncs_878 had the first modifiable effect size.
Vrael had the first placeable special effects.
PhantomSkyfire popularized the Arbiter spawner.
I can't recall who to give credit to for first including unit stacking.
None.