We keep it like its done for years: A small tournament by the german community for the german community. Its not like there no other tournaments going on at this time for all you other ppl out there.
Quintessence of this "strat" is still getting a M3 out asap and put 2 flamer in it. The general BO, the first Tiers, the choosen Commander... everything is pretty replaceable imo.
Target priority is not a bug, its intented.
In CoH1 you even could used it to avoid/bait DMG to a certain unit... I'm sure you can also use it similar ways in CoH2.
Better get used to it, because it wont get removed.