Considering their cost and better stats compared to regular infantry at even vet, they might lack upgrades to scale better, but they require no munitions investment besides healing so I think it's fair to call them Elite Infantry.
Rifles need to be strong and scale well since they are the main component of USF strategy, plus you need infantry to cap points so it doubles up, now Tommies are indeed strong for their cost with all their upgrades but, they lack snares and that is a crippling weakness that can and should be exploited... Even if their RA in cover is a bit silly past Vet2.
Hm so the reason riflemen are so powerful is because they are the mainline infantry and they have to cap? All infantry has to cap lol and as far as I know, grens still suck conpared to rifles and tommies..
Tommies are complete bullshit, we all know it. Can't exploit their non existent snare when the AEC shows up at roughly the same time as the 222 and the cromwell always shows up faster than the p4 in most scenarios..