Pre-WFA the game was in a good place, and it had taken a while to get there.
Compared to where we are post-WFA with where we are now we would be in the dark days of unstoppable Tiger Aces and Windustry
I don't think the game is as bad as that right now
Maybe I'm donning the rose-tinted glasses here, but right before WFA I was playing mp matches with some of the oldbloods like Twister, DanielD and Ipkai lots of others on my friends list and the overall sentiment was that the game was more fun than ever after Elbe Day update and balance was looking quite good (maybe a bit in favor of Soviet.)
Now none of them play the game AT ALL. My primary 2v2 partner just plays Elder Scrolls now even though he has more logged hours than anyone I've seen because of the rampant bugs in the game right now.
What's weird to me is, Relic has the philosophy of balancing the game from early game up to late game (still coming) and I think it has worked quite well but they don't seem to mirror that philosophy when it comes to functionality coming before observer mode. Confusing to be honest.