Makes it even easier for defenders; if the attacking AI can't land outside a small area, like in B27, then the defender can just set up and expect the enemy to keep dropping in that narrow zone, providing an easy way to kill reinforcements, almost endlessly.

In B27, it meant that a serious player could simply set up shop and then go gold-dig the rest of the scenario.

I just delivered a crate directly onto my brain, and I'm pretty upset about that

He might be referring to the fact that drop crates now have a randomized drop pattern, placing them around the general area where you wanted instead of directly.

Actually it is not as randomized as you'd think. while the direction might be randomized it always is sent to left or right with X (always same) force. so if you want it to dodge some unit (brain in this case) just drop it directly on him and it won't get crushed. the distance of course depends on how far from the highest point it is going to land.

No, it is randomized. If you look at the script on the dropcrate it does: self.Vel = Vector(math.random(2, 5), 20), which means that the left/right speed (when it's spawned only, after that it just falls with momentum) varies from 2 to 5 in whichever direction it picks (with a 50/50 chance). I can never remember what velocity converts to in terms of pixels, but 1 might be 20 pixels per second, in which case this would be between 40 and 200. Don't trust me on that though cause that seems pretty high to me.