It's true Dave and do not think that Relic isn't aware of these issues, but these guys are balancers and they work to balance the game the best they can, they have no decisional power on the other issues you meantioned.
That may be true. But somehow, I just don't think you can trust 'balance devs' who haven't yet managed to fully balance the game as-is, and then go and introduce
more commanders into the balance pot..
This game needs to concentrate on it's balance first. Bring in maps, fine, we need more anyway. That last patch was a step in the right direction in my opinion, but its far from done..
One thing really missing from the game is call-in Elite infantry
When game gets to reasonable balance level. rework all commanders.
For example, Bring back Stormtroopers. Put them as first call in on ambush camoflauge commander. Would be exellent offensive/defensive choice.
and slowly work on the (e.i vanilla first then paid) commanders and rework
THEM into a balanced set of doctrines. That will eventually lead you to this:
Each doc was actually different and you had branches to choose what you wanted as strategic choices throughout the game.
Which prevents this:
There are hardly any people that stream the game any more and anyone who's critical opinion mattered/made sense and was good at the game has been run off.
I don't think now is the time to be introducing new stuff. There are other pressing matters, you know?