btw... if Soviet is so .... weak... why does it... have such... a good ... win rates ? better than ost ....?
Sov arent weak in 1vs1 or even team games. Cons are up and have no real clear role however. Sov just use tactics and other units that are not dependent on their mainline inf. Sov have access to some quite op units but that does not make the cons magically a good unit.
Ost is my favorite faction as thematically and stylistic I like the them the most (also reminds me old COH 1 goodness). However Ost is quite punishing with easy ways to lose units and be wiped by explosives. So Ost are a higher tier of skill than some of the other factions in the game but also very punishable by RNG.
Cons vs Grens balance is pretty good. Grens ofc scale better with upgrade and their rifle nades are in my opinion better than the molos. Early and even mid game the cons / grens dynamic is great. But that is where the whole issue comes from. If you buff cons or give them good scalable weapon upgrades they might break the cons / grens balance. But if you do nothing then OKW blob braindead play remains as a completely viable tactic. But if you nerf volks AI then rifles and tommies become an issue again (tommies with early bolster is already an issue).
Fixing cons to be a viable unit against OKW while NOT becoming op against Ost is what the whole thing is about for me.
That is why I think their utility and not outright combat performance should be looked at. Make the molo and AT nade just a part of sov tech naturally. Then with the 7th man in t4 or t3 then cons will have some late game use as well. Right now they are just a too heavily investment to use in anything other than cons focused doctrines or if you got some specific tactic in mind.
Just to show the issues:
OKW: always gets volks.
USF: always gets rifles.
UKF: always gets tommies.
OST: always gets grens.
SOV: maybe gets cons. Most of the time just 1.
I think penals are also to blame for this and I dislike that unit a lot as well. Its a silly unit and with gamey design that function as a clutch for sov inf. But that is just my opinion and not facts.