Whats the point if volks are 250 mp with only kar98s and no weapon upgrades??
If they will underperform, thay could get old price or some kind of buff, like vet changes. With December buff they are totally fine against ally infantry in early game, against veted infantry you have non-doctrinal obers with cheap upgrades or doctrinal fusiliers and jaegers. Conscripts were in the game without non-doctrinal upgrades from the start and still people use them. Personally I'm not against some kind of AI upgrade, anything except STG, cause there are too many units with it already, but in the same time I think they could be totaly fine for
basic infantry even without upgrades, just with small tweak in price or vet.
Removing shreck and making okw fucked vs light armor rushes
Puma cost almost the same as Luch, we have 6 min Luch in current meta, what stops you from 6 min Puma, it's very good vs light armour, and its same timing as Stuart and earlier than T-70. You dont like Puma, you still have mines, Raketenwerfer and fausts like were suggested.