Gotta keep in mind though that the standardization is something that sadly just isn't avoidable because generally we can only tune some numbers. If there would've been a proper dev team working on it, many of these changes could've been done by more creative reworks. New techs or units filling up gaps, etc. Basically if Relic is full on working on something, they can do whatever they want. The standardization is not a new creative direction or anything. Although I'd also hope they have learned their lessons from WFA and UKF releases lol.
Well, Relic could still have interfered if they were not okay with the direction you guys took CoH2. But they did not, so either they did not care about CoH2's gameplay at the time or they approved. Under the assumption of a new Italy faction, it would be idiotic if they'd create a new faction with some crazy mechanics, just after allowing changes that bring the other 5 factions more in line to each other.
A new faction would have their own gimmicks, but in the end it should be based on basically similar abilities like the current 5 factions. Otherwise we'd likely end up in a broken state again.
As it stands, it seems to be a new game (COH3 HYPE HYPE HYPE) anyway. I really hope they don't fuck up their DLC/MTX policy, because for me that's a reason to 100% not buy a game, even if it were CoH3.