Ok, let me phrase it like this.
If you are a VL in eco spot, you will not only get better eco than anything else in eco spot, you can also use your capship labs to skirmish in to enemy territory and omnomnom planets. Effecticly denying them any hope for eco.
It is next to impossible to catch vasari caps if you have marauder. And sine you can save the lab costs while making cap ships and have exstra slots for any economy, you actualy get returns from investing in capital ships. Something no other race gets.
Anyone who have played diplo with me knows i am a huge capship spamming whore. But in earlier versions Ive always took a risk, now i can just run my fleet and economy at the same time without sacrificing a squat. The only reason i dont play so often this fuckshit awfully balanced piece of crap race right now is not to get used to this easy mode play style.
The VR are less of obnoxious, because even tho the moving orky is scary. At least with VR, you have to actually eco up and watch for harass. Even so, moving orky is a bullshit beyond proportions. Even when vasari could not phase space orkies, vasari eco player could easily spamm well upgraded orkies all fucking over map. No pop cap on orky kind of allows it. Now you dont even need to spamm them. Now you can just build an orky in safety of your planets, and move its fully upgraded arse down the enemy throat. The VR titan is also a big time shenanigans, since it can disable a whole fleet of balanced units. If you are planning going something else than full fleet of bombers against that, forget it. All your hoshikos or guardians are going to sit there uselessly.
I dont know what the devs were smoking when they did this but i want some of that. Other races dont even come close to this level of shenanigans. Both other 2 races have all they "super" stuff focused on defense. Advent nor tech can really do anything remotely as gay as vasari can when playing offensively. And we all know that playing defensively against vasari is just asking to getting your ass kicked.