This is still probably true 
One thing I like about Strat is the friendships, rivalries, and personal diplomacy at play. Adds character to the game.
Its why I've been working on a Strategus mod for Crusader Kings 2, with all of the factions and personalities as playable characters, with plenty of unique traits and events. I will have to make a thread about it soon. CK2 is the perfect engine to really port over the gripping melodrama of the Diplomacy forum and fix the Strategus interface.
Sounds awesome! You should try and incorporate crpg into the mod. By that I mean make Calradia possibly and make all of the fiefs on the strat map. And then you can have all of the crpg clans there too
