I was being sarcastic that's why I put /s at the end of my post.
I guess you are talking about Nordwind here when you say "different snow and effects". Nordwind doesn't use any snow added with the elevation editor. The huge trade-off is that the map doesn't look half as good as real snow maps like Ladoga or Novgorod. It doesn't have the same atmosphere. I was happy they added a new winter map but the visuals of Nordwind have disappointed me. I only played the map twice so far so I don't want to comment on the overall design.
My point is: It's not right that COH2 can't have snow maps just because some people insist on running the game with ancient hardware, often without dedicated GPU or decades-old CPUs.
Novgorod should have the different snow too. But another one i guess.
So its not the old awesome looking snow from old maps, where everyone gets fps drops.
But yeah relic code...