Ok... After playing a few months on a Beta sever in HON (around 4 months I believe) I can totally say that HON is the less mature version of DotA.

Reasons
1.) Level gaping the Enemy
The only way you can keep your enemy level gaped in HON is by harassing him outside his experience gain range, or killing him. I mean, I always average at least 15 denies every 3-4 minutes in both DotA and HON. But in Hon, WTF?! Why does he keep leveling up?! In DotA, denying is a major factor on gaping the enemy other than harassing and killing. HON is basically made a more homosexual game of DotA primarily because of this.

2.) Game decider
An Item gap can already decide a game in HON. Most of the heroes in HON are based from DotA, some of those heroes are combined with other heroes. A level gap can also decide a game. While in DotA, sheer will power decides the game. I've played DotA for 4 years and most of the time, if we are losing, we do our best to rise up. While in HON, no matter what you do, you are effed up if you screwed up early until mid game.

3.) Shortcut keys
In HON, QWER are the shortcut keys for your own skills... Easy, right? In DotA, you have to remember the highlighted letter on the skill. Most of the characters have short cut keys far apart from each other. Item abilities are also the same, but I can't remember what are those. while in DotA, its the number pad.
HON has been WAY too easy for those who do not know how to play DotA, while some DotA players find it hard to adjust, but most of them adjusted quite well. But then, most of them are noobs in DotA anyway, so at some point, they suck at DotA and are good at HON which is basically a child's play toy that older and more mature DotA players can't seem to understand most likely (such as me) because its complex.


HON is a DotA noobs' playground, while decent DotA players until Pro DotA players find this amusing, but some fail to learn the game properly and struggle. But DotA will always love you and it's love is free, while HON is just free if you get the proper keys for its "Lite" version, while the real deal is worth a hooker.