Also, regarding game balance and how it relates to skill, this is a fascinating watch:
Basically everybody needs to watch this, before arguing over COH2 "strats/BO's/meta". vCOH had its share of FOO strats, but with skill (and a patch) they could be beaten.
On the other hand, watching (grown?) (wo)men argue on the internet about personal conflicts camouflaged with balance issues is fun too I guess?