And still it worked
What exactly do you mean by "worked"?
Casuals new Zeal existed and did something.
You had to go ask modders or look at another sites to find out what it actually did and how it functioned, nowhere it explained or hinted at it working on model basis, not squad basis and being in effect within a single squad.
It was stupid, it did not worked, it was extremely unclear and you had to go to external sources to understand what it did.
And that stupidity of lack of any kind of indicators and descriptions continues through DoW2 and CoH2.
Nothing was clear, you wrestled with UI that refused to show you what you wanted to know and you think "it still worked"?