Why were the British called OP recently, and now everyone agrees that this is a useless faction? (Except ardent fans of the axis, because of which the faction nerfs went)
Relic kept trying to make CoH 2's expansion factions play differently by restricting their access to basic tools like snares and indirect fire, but giving them very powerful gimmicks.
It didn't work, and one by one each faction's been reworked to tone down its gimmicks and fill out the holes in its roster.
That makes UKF's power level go up and down every patch. Remove a crutch unit? The power falls through the floor, like when SBP (Centaur and Bren nerf) killed off the faction almost entirely. Give it a missing basic tool? The power shoots up, like the Infantry Section meta we got after Sapper Snares became a thing.
This patch is trying to give UKF some form of viable indirect fire. It'll be interesting to see if it works.