I play Soviets most of the time because otherwise it means interminable waiting otherwise for some senseless slaughter of some poor sucker who's crazy enough to choose Soviets instead of me.
I despise the need to cheese Soviets as much as you do, which is why I always make sure to play something different every single game if I can. I was probably one of the first guys in open beta to spam maxims, but I soon got sick of it (no late game oomph) and went over to something more inspiring (with predictable results for my winrate).
Yeah, most of my allied games came from "don't wanna wait". But I don't thikn Axis are OP. Soviets aren't OP now, neither are Amis as a whole.
All factions have some OP units. And Axis tanks are definitely the best (Which I guess is the reason for the high search %)
Big tanks are fun, Sovs have only 1, Wehr has 1.5 (Tiger, Panther is .5) OKW have KT and Jagd and Sturmtiger, which are all vey fun.
Amis have stuart mortar thing () It's actually very useful but it's not a KT or Tiger.
PERSHING PLS!