[akots]

Well, IMO, you better leave it like it is in case he comes back. But really, hard to tell. It seems that giving AI an opportunity to rule even for a short time might be quite devastating. You come back after a few turns and all your hard-grown cottages got transformed into farms or workshops and ll units manage to get killed while you research useless techs and the economy is ruined. At least by maintaining status quo on the diplomatic front, we can ensure that there nothing gets changed. But of course, that would be better decided on individual basis.