I guess the Quentin-busting comes down to two reasons: 1) his English sucks. 2) He speaks bad English like a French intellectual, ie. :
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/jean-baudrillard/articles/simulacra-and-simulations-i-the-precession-of-simulacra/ And god knows there's nothing worse than a French intellectual, right?
Anyone who analyzes and thinks too much is always suspect. FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T ASK ME TO THINK - Game of Thrones is on.
But he's right, if you take the time to analyze why you suck.
I know why I suck: I have poor CPM and often, as some player pointed out to me, ask my units to do things they can't. I might know I'm not going to win an engagement or my positioning is poor so I should retreat from the engagement but there's a lot of RNG and probability in COH2 fights so I rely on luck. But I only play for fun now, so I don't care that I play arrogantly and my weakened Sturmpios only have a slim chance of winning vs that rifle squad that still has 75% health. It's more fun for me to win when I'm not playing serious and I lose a ton of shit!
And to get back on topic - there are still a lot of situations where I have no idea what the outcome might be. Like a day ago I ran across a 75% health shock (all members still there) with a vet flamer pio and another pio. I had no idea how that engagement would come out. Maybe with lucky flame crits I would have won? I didn't know so I retreated the units. And of course the more units in a fight, the more analysis you have to do subconsciously and quickly.
And that's what makes good players good once the technical CPM barrier is overcome - judgement. Unfortunately most shoutcasts don't do this micro-level analysis, and we can't expect streamers to do it - that's asking a lot while playing.
I also disagree with Quentin you can't learn a lot from replays of top players - their knowledge of good opening capping orders and unit movement early is something you can copy and learn from - up to say 3-4 minutes. After that it is mostly useless because everything unfolds differently.