I haven't played Heroes 7, so I can only speak for Heroes 6 as I tried to play with friends many years ago.
For a singleplayer strategy game Heroes 6 was a quite refreshment to a Heroes franchise. You could reforge castles to your own faction castle, heirloom artifacts and heroes were very strong, etc. But the game could get very annoying during the multiplayer games due to a constant desinc issues. CONFLUX system was very unstable. And I don't know if it's still alive, by the way. I remember it was possible to play multiplayer matches without the CONFLUX stuff (artifacts, heroes) though.But it wasn't that fun, because Heroes 6 is all about CONFLUX stuff: you complete the campaign scenarios - you get new CONFLUX heroes and artifacts.
Knowing ubisoft the CONFLUX servers can shutdown any time. I'd like to check Heroes 6 for you and tell if the game is till alive, but I can't reach the ubisoft connect launcher download page for some unknown reason.