I don't think Peter or the developers actually played the patch enough in the closed beta, or the beta testers are not very swift, as they would have seen these problems in playtests.
My suspicion is that the beta testers, like Relic, enjoy very static games that rely on some initial positions with lack of aggressive play, ie., follow-on attacks, cut-offs, etc. If you need to deal with a support weapon, you don't flank, or move, you just bring out a counter (mortar, sniper etc).
When you think about the game from this perspective, which is very low-skill, all these changes make perfect sense, even combat pioneers. You wouldn't risk sending your pio out to attack a squad alone. If you are a noob it's not going to occur to you to send out a gren and pio together to shred up to two conscripts for 40 less manpower.
And of course it never occurred to any of them that the most insane, overpowered thing you can do with Ostheer is make 5 grens, upgrade as many as you can with LMGs, buy a halftrack and own the entire map with your gigantic highly mobile army, which is only vulnerable to arty or armor (if you get that far).
If video of playtests was ever released, I'm sure it would confirm my suspicions.
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