exactly, after watching the replay, i saw his mp float and followed by t3 which he never really used. Could've invested into snipers and DSHK. Also i feel he didn't use his shermans as a hit and run unit, he did attack, but he would've made a much bigger impact if he drove around the map trying to harass and kill lonely units with them.
About the nades, you're totally right with the current metagame as every PE go fast acs or gren spam.
But nades are really fun to use if your opponent goes T2 HT with 4 to 5 pg squads - the joy of putting a nade inside the HT and watching the pgs stuck with it...
is that even possible? or the nade lands on the ground and then AOE does the damage inside the HT.
but its getting there. I was dissapointed aswell, the alpha felt like a step in the wrong direction, but they made some necessary changes and now im quite hyped for the expansion.