Profile of Inverse

So if CoH2 isn't about high APM, then it should be easy to achieve APM high enough to control units properly, yes? Even in CoH, where top players don't care enough about mechanics as they should, I guarantee you that there isn't a single high-level 1v1 player who has a problem with this. Not one. Again, two actions per move command is nothing.

This isn't random at all, it's properly rewarding good play and punishing bad play. Are you not good enough to micro a few units in an extremely simple way? Yes? Well, you're going to lose more often. And if you practice and improve, you're going to lose less often. Problem solved.

Then practice better micro? Every move command you issue costs two actions, a select action and a move command action. With proper boxing and mouse control, you should be able to easily move three squads in under a second.

You're asking for a handicap because you can't properly micro your squads. I suggest you make a conscious effort to improve your APM and multitasking instead of asking the game to make up for your deficiencies as a player.

When microing three units is too hard...

How do you know those are Commander Durability Icons? Are they named like that?

Kinda sucks if that's true since it means commanders will deteriorate and need to be maintained. CoH2 needs less pay-for-options scenarios, not more.

You can't release frequent balance patches anyways because you need to give the game time to adjust to the changes. But what you can do is make quality-of-life improvements to things like the interface. I mean, look at the tactical map, it's a clusterfuck of information overload. Relic is competing with free-to-play games in that they need people constantly playing CoH2 so they can generate revenue through DLC. The best way to keep people interested is to constantly give them new stuff to be excited about, even if it's just a few new options on the menu.

A big problem, I presume, is the fact that CoH2 was built on CoH1's engine. That's some real old code, most of the original programmers are probably gone, and it's likely not very modular/extensible, at least not to the extent of a game like Dota 2 which was specifically designed for the iterable free-to-play model. Valve also owns their distribution platform, unlike Relic who probably has to pay every time they push an update. That combined with the crazy QA Relic's patches have historically had to go through largely explains why patches don't happen more frequently.