“Viruses” are not considered alive by most definitions.
That will depend on how detailed and graphic the devs what to get, though I hope that becomes possible.
The biggest problem with that, the current plan involves a jarring jump from multicellular to macroscopic. It would be a lot of work to smoothly bridge that gap, though maybe we will get lucky and some future dev or modder will feel it is worth their time to implement.
I could not agree more. It’s half the reason for AI and Time Limit Difficulty Setting