Ostheer squads themselvs wiping enemy squads with their helluva firepower. PzGrens STGs are deadly in mid-close, Grens with MG-42 are deadly at long range, specially buffed with Officier...
It is balance - they dying easy, but they also make other die easy. Compare with 6 men conscripts, which are "hard to be wiped", but their firepower is so low, that they can't kill anyone.
I would like to have effective, but fragile infantry, not tough and ineffective. Riflemans are main core of USF, so they suppoused to be good in everything, UKF... bad design, everything that I can say.
I have a suggestion - if Ostheer players don't like to have such fragile infantry units in stock - let's change Grenadeers to Osttrupen as mainline infantry! Osttrupens are 6 men squad, survivable as you need. But hey... we have already faciton with "Osttrupens" in core, calls USSR. And it sux, really sux...
Wait, stay on track, I didn't say there is anything wrong with fragile infantry units or ostheer infantry units. But there is no infantry unit that can wipe squads just becouse of its stats - its always players mistake, usually and overextension, if he loses a unit. So its not like ostheer units are getting wiped more often, you just need to play more cautiosly with them. My point though is saying that getting wiped doesn't have huge impact on game result is just stupid.
Btw if you think soviets suck, why do you play as soviets? Maybe they doesn't fit your playstyle and you should change factions? You know, they for example fit mine pretty well so I always had best ranks as soviets. In 1v1 ofc, I play other mods for strat testing and trolling only.