I am quietly confident that we will get modding capability back, but it will go hand-in-hand with Steam Workshop implementation, dev-designed (or approved) modding tools and some fairly strict guidelines.
There has been a great deal of discussion about this over at RN with Lardinal, one of the Relic devs assigned to modding duties. I know he's registered over here at COH2.org as well.
I think the problem here is that we will all be waiting a hell of a long time, and a number of perspective modders have long since given up on the game. Relic are simply far too slow to react to anything.
CoH 1 had some fantastic skins and flag mods , its a shame nothing like this is suppored..
CoH2 although better in some ways is hugely restrictive which is my main gripe with this game along with the input lag .