These players represent the best players of coh 2 and win because they have far superior skills then the average newbie maxim spammer. That doesn't mean the maxim is not op dumbass.
If you want to discredit everything that is thrown your way, you might just as well quit the discussion, because you don't give a shit about how to counter maxims and only thing you care for it nerfing them so you can grenspam with impunity or no adaptation.
If you see a better then you player countering something, you don't go screaming "OMG HE GUT AND I R BAD, HE GOD OF MICRO, I CAN NOT KNOW DIFFERENCE BETWUN PIO AND GREN", you watch fucking better players and LEARN from them. This is the exact reason why I have relatively small number of games played, but I'm way better then VAST majority of players who have 1000s games with CoH2.
You are as good as you let yourself be. If you're not willing on improving yourself, don't blame balance, because its not balance thats bad here-its you and only you are to blame.
This applies in general to about 95% of posters on this and official forums.
Most of balance threads could be replaced with "Why the fuck would I have to use anything else then grens and tigers?" and it wouldn't change a thing about whats inside them.
No decent German player would allow his sc to get at naded. of course they do more damage up close but conscripts fail hard to take out a sc from cover and at range. maxims with at support like guards or zis have a far better time at it.
There are no cons in maxim spam. There is a high chance that there are no guards with T2 build as well.
Unless sov gets 2 ZiS guns to face the same direction, your SC should not die to anything, but will be able to distract maxims for repositioning/retreats and even retreat kills, which it does excellent this patch.