MR upgrade was not available at beta their vet bonuses where designed with out it thus they superior to that of the other units. Now that MR is available it only natural their bonuses get toned down.
I happened to have played during beta, so I know what I'm talking about. MR was added exactly because the baseline was not enough.
Conscripts do not fight "against double bren/bar vet3 tommies/rifles" and they preice range is not even close.
They do not, but they compare to them. And no, their price range is not far. Cons are expensive because of how often they drop models. It's not so easily noticeable ingame when other units are also fairly cheap to build, but the amount you spend on simply reinforcing them is much higher than with other mainlines. First salvo from volks commonly takes down a model right away for example. And while the upgrades are indeed more expensive, they provide correspondingly higher firepower. YOu can compare single bar/bren tommies/rifles if you wish, which is very close, but then they still remain superior in firepower and still remain signigicantly better in the early and mid game, so nothing changes.
No they do not. Soviet have access to a numerous other infatry and units and conscripts are supposed to everything.
No, soviets do not have acces to numerous other infantry options. You have CE which are only viable as a combat unit early game, you have Penals – not viable at all, and you have optionally one elite call-in. If you followed 1v1 meta or tournaments, you would probably know that those are not used very much except for a few specific guard builds.