Same stuff with all SEGA titles. DLC commanders are utter shit. Multiplayer content which affects your strategic possibilities should not be put behind a paywall.
Anyway, good to see the game getting some publicity where it matters.
And if we have a community spotlight, what would the selection be based on?
Doubt they'd want to shoot them self in the foot with potential free high quality skins/decals that might directly compete with bought ones (as Inverse pointed out). Basing it on popularity and they still run the risk of getting swastikas and unicorns. Doesn't leave a whole lot of room for other stuff.
Yeah.. I don't want to see pink tanks and dildos in automatch, save that for custom games.
Moderating such content and rules around it is a god damn bitch, excuse the wording. Have done it for a mod in another game genre (me and a lot of others in that community), I know first hand it can be hard and unnecessarily time consuming. Don't open the floodgates of shit content to cater to a small minority.
Guys, it's just an alpha, not the end of the world. You'll get to play the beta and buy the dlc (expansion?) eventually.
As far as who gets in, that's hopefully done in a manner broadly representing the community (from 1v1 pros to 4v4 scrubs). It's been said over and over.