I hope you guys all realize that this is just beating a dead horse by now.
CoH2 is way past it's development phase with only Relic allowing a small community team to keep supporting it in a very limited scope.
Whatever is discussed here will not happen, for better or worse so I suggest cooling down with the emotions and panic, as well as elitism of some people I would say, towards the subject matter.
actually unlocking the commanders should be a fast thing to do
i guess once all the balancing that can be done is done. the final step is to allow self made commander selection