I still don't see how a blizzard could really change an outcome of a match of two good players. You got informed before the blizzard, so you could prepare. And you would use different strategy while it is on that you would surely learn to use after some time if they didn't remove it. For example snipers were designed to work better in blizzard. Or you could attack with your vehicles without a risk of getting loitered to death. Some players just didn't want to adapt and pressured for the removal.
I would have preferred if they reworked blizzards, but the current implementation was awful. You had exactly 60 seconds to prepare, that's nothing. You had time to make some firepits and cry in a house for 5 minutes while the blizzard passed. Infantry play basically stopped for minutes at a time in a match because it was just too slow and risky to make any plays because your troops would freeze to death on retreat lol. Firepits even cost manpower so you would lose income by just moving around the map. It actively promoted just camping on the resources you had and gaining passive income with no action, and your opponent probably did the same thing.
They could have made the blizzards have a countdown from the start of the match, like 8 mins worth on a timer. That would easily have made the blizzards much more interesting tactics wise. They went with straight removal, which is kinda lame but still better than keeping them in.