This system has to change, it was quite perfect in vcoh. Why not implement something that worked?!
Right now, if you cap the whole map, then the income is still the same with 100 popcap, so this means your enemy can just spam up an army and try to push you back. This doesn't reward outplaying your opponent early/mid game.
i find the reverse button to be a great addon to coh2, that doesn't mean that now its easier to micro. The pathing was made better this way, how many times people got frustrated in vcoh when their tanks suddenly started turning when you wanted them to reverse. But now, you can actually micro your tank the way you want, backwards of fowards, nothing wrong with that. You can now focus better on other units at the same time. That's one of the reasons, why coh2 has alot of good players, because you don't get punished by these stupid pathing problems.