Spanish unbeatable?

Sometimes in a variety of maps, one strategy I see is the conq rush. As far as I can tell, someone who executes this well will always win. There's no way to counter. Small groups of units, several conqs can beat anything.

Mango - conq wins

pikes - conq wins

skirms - can only win in large numbers and thus if it's early castle, conq wins

monks - conq wins

knights - conqs can kite and win

Every time I see someone doing this to someone else, the one who is doing it will win.

Every time I see this done against me, I lose.

I don't think there is actually any counter to this. And I've not seen anything else like this. I've never seen another meme or cheese strat that is so close to unbeatable. If you get tower rushed, you can vill fight and knock them down or push back with mangoes. If you get scout rushed, you can make spearmen. Etc etc. But nothing can beat early castle conqs. In a messy open map like nomad forget it, no chance. Even in arena, if the spanish castle rush drop goes down and you didn't perfect an inner wall and defensive castle and petards or castle fire open the wall, it's gg with just 3 conqs. The only place you can't do this is BF and maybe fortress or amazon tunnel. And water maps.

I know that, given my elo, (¬1100) most of the people doing this actually suck, and they just learned memorised the build order. But that's the thing. Conqs are just so OP that 3 or 5 of them end the game even if the player sucks if he manages to field them early enough.

If you are in a nomad or megarandom or african clearing style map and it takes some extra time to develop because of weird random placement of shit, and the spanish play gets even a tiny lead on you, once those conqs are out it is GG. In a open map like this you can't wall, and there is no other unit - in any civ - that can keep up.

Because conqs are so grossly overpowered, I see this strategy done all the time and always win.

I don't know how the game should make it more balanced. Maybe conqs cannot shoot monks because it is against their religion. or maybe if skirms get a larger bonus against them.