the new estate and new TO systems combined should encourage more "land-taking" wars, rather than scorched earth. Let's see how things play out once those get pushed to stable.
It seems to me that while it make encourage it, the changes will not alter the fundamental calculus of simply denying your enemies their lands, and then later after they are utterly defeated rebuilding. It means that looting has an even greater tactical effect, but the same strategic effect. Ultimately the grand strategy of turning as many regions rogue as possible will remain as the balances is tilted too heavily in its favor.
