"but in CoH2 build and click to attack that's all."
Somehow I get the feeling you haven't been all that successful in CoH2. A lot of people not making use of special abilities of units doesn't mean they are obsolete. Maybe you should play a bit more and then come back because CoH2 at higher levels is way more than "click to attack".
o.O It's more like APM war and shows greatly the inbalanced stuff. Clearly you can do shit without decent micro at higher levels, but yeah vCOH 2 faction and the requirements are plain dump compared to vCOH, I think that's what the OP tries to point out. It did change since the release, the game is better now.
Buuut!!! Since WFA the game is getting better and better, I think once balanced it'll be coh 1 > coh 2.
Also the p2w system is the past