New guest-stars are emerging from the community and playerbase. CoH1 had a 7 year run uptil SNF4 and there were bound to be known names along the way. This game is 6 months old, and new great players are emerging. This isnt CoH1, some would like it to be, some dont. Also, that is not really up to the SNF crew to change (if needed) but rather up to relic (who wont).
I think they put in a great amount of effort in the SNF and its great quality. Really want them to continue going.
Very doubtful that any CoH2 prodigies (if they even exist) will get anywhere near the recognition that the coh1 top tier players did. If the game has less strategic depth and p2w doctrines are being exploited to the max, there isn't very much to be impressed about. Right now the top players are a very limited number of high level coh1 players, and the rest were mid level coh1 players or didn't play competitively at all. Its not like when the sequel was released they magically improved their skills tenfold over night, which really says a lot about the level of competition in this game.
This can change eventually if the game is improved, but I can guarantee you that even if someday the competitive level of this game exceeds that of CoH1, nobody will look back on the early top players in the same regard that was had for people like Sepha, Golradaer, Nystrom, Aniketos, DrHorse, etc.