And it was fine when we had SU and OST. Both with useful stock which can do the job and better doctrinal units.
Since WFA it's no longer case becasue USF,OKW and UKF have everything what's best in their tiers.
Imagine if OST had non doc Stug E, Puma, Osttruppen and Tiger. No more struggle agasint USF blob, aye? And that's the thing. SU and OST need to relay on doctrines. OKW, USF and UKF don't.
More like imagine if ost had a stubby p4 instead of the long barrel, no mg42 for grens and the panther armour and pen was only SLIGHTLY better than the stug... But its ok cause you can get an lmg42 in doctrine a or c but the long barrel p4 is in doctrines d and e.
Soviet dont have scaling into the late game, their units are supposed to overwhelm amd crush but their economy punishes losses just as hard as any other,their at power is capped at 200 non doc yet azis armour goes up to 375! All axis AT is guaranteed to pen (like 100% of the time) every non doc thing the soviet can throw. Reliance on doctrines is in the past, soviet need to become a faction of its own that is complete. Doctrines need to be for flavour not so it can have the same chance at winning as the other factions have
The game should be balanced with commanders out of the equation- all core units vs the enemies core units THEN introduce commanders to the balance team and one by one bring them up to date