People keep saying that OKW needs the LiG to make up for their lack of a HMG but most OKW players play a commander that provides them one. People also seem to forget the Kubelwagon.
The gun kills better than the best Soviet mortars of the same value and also instantly suppresses units making infiltration tactics impossible on smaller maps and massing infantry to counter OKW blobs near impossible on all maps.
I do think the LeIG is broken but comparing the kubelwagen to a viable suppression platform is silly. Its good for the first 6 minutes (admittedly very good) but then drops off so fast. I can't imagine a single situation where someone would build a late game kubel, but I can imagine it for just about every other unit.
Also I don't think that playing 2 commanders that give them one is a valid point. I mean, why lock people into two commanders for any faction?