the price increase on volks is minimal. Especially compared to their new increased effectiveness, dual grenades, more accesible schreks, and the extra manpower from the cheaper strums.
The pack is an extremely vulnerable unit that has neither the retreat capability of mortars, or the gun shield and range of the lieg. It also has no anti infantry flak gun safe zone to fall back to and fire from. On top of this there isn't even a suppression unit to protect it in the captain tier. If the enemy infantry comes into range of t they can easily fire on it all the way back to the base. That means the pack always has to pack up and retreat before the infantry is in range or it will be wiped.
before the suppression allowed the pack to slow down assaults to give it more time to fire and run away. now the pack will have much less time to fire and retreat in assaults. It'll provably struggle to get even 3 shots off before it has to get out of dodge even with a decent rifle screen.
USF has far more tools than OKW for handling blobs and defending back line paks. Fighting Positions, barbed wire, .50cals, etc. Not to mention Riflemen will handly outscale them with veterancy and further more with BAR(s) and such. Throw in the schreck of the volks and they lose further infantry combat effectiveness. Granted, the schreck decrease was odd but its back to 90 and the so called dreaded blob is still easily countered by HMGs and other upgradable and scaling mainline infantry.
The only thing I can see changed is the incendary grenade removed and given to Sturmpioneers and maybe a slight increase again for Volks to around 260.