Are you talking about Elite n Windustry or you are talking about the CE commanders ? Collectors edition was a joke cause buying the game day 1 would give you the same benefits bar not getting the 2nd ToW DLC. Still vanilla commanders were good for 1v1 and it was mostly on teamgames were you could get an edge. I mean, Shock Rifle, Assault Support, Guard Motor, Elefant/ISU, etc. Perhaps ISU+Guards for Soviets. OH did have better alternatives with Spearhead and Joint Ops.
Hmmm i would argue UKF right now is in an even lower standard than the lowest state of any faction had been, cause at least certain factions were handicapped only by match up or mode.
Say USF is steamrolling on 1v1 against OH, you could still use OH on 2v2+ while at the same time USF was not as good as you keep adding players to the game. OKW was bonkers but kept in checked on 1v1, mostly to maxim spam.
Right now, i don't think you have much reason to play them on either 1v1 or 2v2+. If your opinion is that OKW had it bad anytime, think about what would happen if you made the OKW rework and you didn't gave them a lava nade and panzerfaust after removing the gimmickies.
Personally I think USF is fine. They struggle for the first 5-7 minutes and then comeback with strong scaling infantry and more efficient units than the competition, i.e. HE Sherman and Pershing. No different than OKW was 2 years ago post June patch. USF would buy 4 mortars and laser blow OKW to shit while people were told to buy StGs and fight 2x BAR rifles. OKW was a “lategame faction” and USF more the early game faction at the time. Tables have swung full 180 now and suddenly USF is unplayable. Not attacking you or anything but the USF unplayable crap is really annoying currently. The faction has a tech issue and is weak to sniper play as always but that’s about it currently. Everything else is generally either mediocre like the mortar or over the top like the Pershing.
The problem isn’t USF is unplayable, the problem is why would you subject yourself to USFs weaknesses when soviets cover theirs so much better.