I made a Comparison of different vision tools to show that Axis also have scout units as well. If you are losing to Pathfinders which has slightly more vision than Pioneer (which has the highest vision range out of any stock unit without upgrades), a unit that you start with and available stock to your faction then you have some serious L2P issues which reinforces my belief that we should limit people posting on these forums unless they reach a certain rank because every noob under the sun cries about something being OP rather than reflecting within and realizing that maybe they just aren't that good at the game.
You don't seem to understand the flow of the game. Pathfinders come free equipped with sniper rifle, can be summoned instantly to the map and have elite infantry vision. Your comparison are all much slower to come to play. The original suggestion is still to drop pathfinder to cp1 and make sniper rifle cost ammo. And your point about the pioneer vision only work for OST faction and it's not at all the same. If you really are comparing normal ost pioneer to pathfinders your mental capacity is pretty limited.
You still don't understand the point of this topic. It's to balance out the unit with it's mirror unit JLI and have it not appear on the map instantly when the game starts. OST a lot of times rely on their MG, but pathfinders are such a no brainer instant vision + stealth unit to make them useless against the blobs that USF use.