OP, breakthrough information: JLI and pathfinders are not meant to do the same neither in the same factions, therefore comparing them is like comparing apples to oranges. They only share to be call-ins infantry with some long range superiority.
If your point is "why my Xunit is not better than their Yunit" you are on a dead end. And this thread will blow like a ballon on toxicity and offtopics.
Again costs mean nothing compared with other factions, but to the faction itself and its relative cost to achieve more important goals. In other words, JLI cost is the only way to balance JLI within OKM. Just that, as for pathfinders costs mean you need to choose either that troop or any other one.
But dont worry its a common mistake everyone here likes to do, specially when its alliedbiased, im not saying you do, but other people.
Please do not post these useless arguments here. Data analysis or playing experience.
I recalled how you derail things (and ignore facts as well as insult others) in last rifleman topic.
https://www.coh2.org/topic/86077/riflemen-are-too-expensive/page/5