The game is made by Alex (
http://www.deadrock-game.com) and myself (
http://www.omni-labs.com/) and your quotes are so going to go onto the box once we finish the final version of the game :-D
On a more serious note, both Alex and myself actually come from a background in profesional games development and we worked for some pretty big companies. I personally have no desire to go back to corporate game development as we are having too much fun as indies.
Thanks for the praise, great you like the game! You are right btw, there is as much 4x to the game as RTS, as well as some harder to define elements. (Gardening?)
We will definitely try to keep the game as simple as it can be. Some additional features will deepen the game and make it look better, but we will try to not overdo it :-)