You suffer from the good old "HoMM4isnotHoMM3-itis"...
1. That's personal taste.
2. Only the animations are slow, and the map itself is larger.
3. There IS a marketplace, you need to build it for yourself.
4. Not sure about the first part. But second part: In order to be able to cast a spells of a certain school you need to be trained on the required level of the said school. For example, the level 5 spell Armageddon requires you to be a level 5 Chaos Spellcaster.
5. You're only missing the old combat system because it was a lot easier.
6. The Necromancer campaign might be evil enough. (The one where they're torching someone on a bonfire.)
7. You're on the internet, right?
8. Wait until the enemy starts to lurk around your towns, or set the difficulty higher, or disregard resource collection until it is necessary.
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