Yeah, unfortunately that is the case. Frankly, I believe that an emphasis on 1on1 has led us to where we are now in terms of popularity, and lethality. In that respect it makes more sense to balance for the absurd and then have the changes trickle down to smaller modes. Regardless, It's clear that most people would rather play team games; but, that's a discussion for another thread.
In response to you trying to sneak in the idea of an MG34 at every opportunity in the discussion
I'm of the notion that you have enough fire power to have a reasonable opening without a suppression platform. Is it one dimensional, probably, is that necessarily a bad thing/is an OKW player significantly worse off without it? Debatable, I tend to side with the discourse primarily 'cos I can remember the Kubelwagon with suppression + Sturm charges; the effect would be the same only slightly later in arriving.
ps. forget the Luchs, double leigs will contend with anything the allies can throw at you, plop down the Schwerer and they're going to be hardpressed not to spend precious resources on indirect fire; that is, if they can catch up in the first place.
This is why I think there should be 2 modes, a competitive 1v1 or 2v2 mode and a larger 3v3 and 4v4 mode, balance would be difference with accordance to each mode, people that wanna play competitively can still enjoy 1v1s and 2v2s while 3v3s and 4v4s would be untouched by it.
Oh and I already made my mod, couldn't wait:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=875521850
It's a work in progress and I'm thinking of changing a couple of more things.