Your post is the perfect example for why this:
is utter nonsense.
Thank you for that
I'm going to +1 to that.
Seems like quentin confused CoH with starcraft, where only economy and number of units matter for the most part.
Economy in coh2 isn't irrelevant, but certainly isn't as important as in traditional RTS games, since you can do fine for extended time by just using menpower army. You don't need your own tanks to counter opponents and you definitely can't "equalize" infantry across the board.
Rifles and volks being equal to grens means allies would never win another game, because different armies have different starter kits.
Maybe quentin wants to play good, old "Z", but he is on alex level of wrong here.