I think your game needs to be at least about 10 minutes long in order to get any Loot.
So even if you compstomp all the time easy PCs (which is soooooo much fun Kappa) you still need 25% of my calculated time, which is still about 15 - 20 hours of pure nonstop compstomping.
No sane person will do that.
At the moment the surrender button is available, you earn point/loot so 5 minutes.
So yes with the compstomp method you need 15 hours but
1- Many new players are already only playing compstomp
2- You can use this method sometime when you are waiting friends to play
Nobody says getting a new commander should be easy, but logical = you play, you are sure to get a commander after a period of time, and the one you really want.
Now you also have to consider the game cost 20euros on steam and can probably be found aroud 10 euros on different stores or even less during sold. So in the end, you can buy it really cheap and invest 10 more euros on commanders (which are also many times sold). All of that for half of the price other players paid for the same stuff.
We can also compare it with a MMORPG, you can be a new player and reach level max on any mmo game and still you'll not be equal to others which have been there for long time. You'll need time to grind your stuff and any time you face one of those better stuffed player, you'll probably die fast whenever you are better or not.
Today in Coh2, USF/OKW/Sov have commanders from the get to go that are clearly fine, Ostheer maybe not (don't remember which were free) but we hope the patch will change that in some way. Brit I dunno as I don't have the faction. And Honestly at low level till top 500, except from some hypothetical noob-killer commanders, improving your skill will always be superior than getting a new commander.