Eh I'm not super surprised. Relic usually makes a bad decision or two for every good decision it makes. CoH had basically all the good decisions so then OF and ToV had to be 100% bad decisions. CoH 2 is spreading things out in a more sensible manner. Some good + a lot of bad.
OF is better than vCoH. It introduces another faction to the axis and one that is awesome. If only relic would fix that glitch that introduces a faction to the allies, it would be perfect.
The soviet wire is really annoying. Does it even cost something?