Then you are playing the wrong game. This is how it was in CoH 1 and people seemed to think it worked fine there, it is also what made it special.
Perhaps you are reading it wrong; to me it means that you have a window which you have to capitalize on in order to compensate for your weaker period. In CoH 1 it meant that Americans had to be agressive early and get enough of a VP lead to win the late game during which the Wehrmacht had their window. As the Wehrmacht you did the opposite; you hade to hamper, and not lose, the Americans enough in the early game so you could win in the late game.
It made for beautiful games in my honest opinion.
Wrong.
In US vs Wehr matchup, you dont have to capitalize all the VP and cut all fuel to win as US.
If you even watch top players play, like Inverse, Aimstrong, 3 Rifle Sniper/Tank Depot defensive play also wins them games.
Wehrmacht dont automatically win when they tech up to T4 and get ostwinds and panthers, even Tiger out.
Armor company is a late game doctrine for armor.
Infantry company is good when you go defensive and start hammering them with 105 and snipers.