Let's talk exploration age and treasure fleet gameplay

What do you guys think about the exploration age reveal?

I think the concept is fun but the devs said that currently your home continent doesn't count as distant lands for the other civs you meet in the exploration age when the map opens up.

That would mean they have a different economy legacy path and are locked out of a gameplay aspect.

If that doesn't change until release it would be the first time in a civ game where the AI doesn't have access to all the tools the player has. For me at least it would make it feel like the new civs in exploration age aren't full civs and it makes the whole age feel like you're just playing a scenario.

Someone did ask on stream about this and the devs did say they're looking into making it happen but the answer didn't exactly inspire confidence.