Well you are asking the wrong person, because I find coh2 boring as fu#@. Coho online had so many ridiculous op strats/abilities/units but it was loads of fun and most op things could be balanced out in the meta due to having so many options to craft your army. Coh2 has barely any real options and anything deemed to be op, or even moderately too good gets the balls cut off it. This seems double for the German side as german units tend to get nerfed into uselessness, then only after an uproar gets buffed to mediocrity.
If the "Battle Servers" that were discussed are also proposed for COH - thus returning to pre Steam status - I think all the issues many have with COH2 will go away as simply we won't be forced to play COH2 if we want a game of Company of Heroes.
I'm sure if that happens though the statistics of play for COH2 are going to really drop off - so I'm not holding my breath.
I always like the default line they use of "Well at this stage of life of the game - COH2 is significantly ahead of COH1..." - well that's because COH broke the ground that COH2 is now treading - if COH2 was a stand alone title ....I'd sure hate to see how low the numbers would be.