Profile of rofltehcat

Their job is really just to counter light vehicles (which they do pretty well) and add some supporting fire as well as button on medium tanks. Their high durability and acceptable AI damage only make them more efficient at their job because the high squad number and armor mean they survive both AoE weapons (flamers, explosions) as well as small arms (infantry, light vehicles, tanks) very well, which in turn means they can normally fill those functions longer than most other units would normally be able to stay on the field. Their grenade also plays into this, allowing them to fend off even anti infantry units like Panzer Grenadiers when the grenade is used well.
They are really a very versatile and durable package. Of course they do not completely excel at one task but this also isn't their job because if you'd want something to deal more damage to tanks you'd build an AT gun and place a few mines and if you'd want something to walk all over infantry you'd just get Shocks.

Countering infantry simply isn't their job and as elite infantry their job also isn't to make up more than 1 or 2 squads of your infantry force, or else it'd be main line infantry rather than elite infantry.

If you want them to reliably counter infantry, you'd have to accept tradeoffs in other areas. I'm definitely not against changes if many people are for some changes. However, I really doubt all people wanting them to be changed understand what they are asking for.

Changing them may very well decrease doctrinal light vehicle protection and AT support, may make other (AI) units like PTRS conscripts and Shocks (but also M3s, Maxims and many many more) less desirable compared to Guards. Similarly, any slight AI buff might still feel as being "not enough" simply because they still wouldn't dominate some units or other specialized units might still be more desirable. Changes to them might even ultimately create other problems people don't even think about yet (e.g. in the event of possible light vehicle buffs or nerfs to other units or abilities).

Their current situation is pretty solid. They definitely aren't the best unit for every job but they are pretty formidable at a lot of things.

Wow, this really shouldn't work that way. I guess people will now pick the Opel commander more often with the knowledge of this.
Definitely needs fixing. Also kind of explains some very strange matches I played vs. that commander.

They are very survivable (1.5 times as much as Conscripts), acceptable vs. infantry (slightly stronger than Conscripts even without the DP upgrade, 1.5 times as strong with DP) and their grenades allow them to beat back approaching short range infantry.
They are very good vs. T2 vehicles, their AT rifles deal more damage against German T3 units than you'd expect plus they can button them, creating high synergy with any AT unit.

They really don't need a buff. They are not supposed to be infantry hard counters, it is the job of Shocks and Penals.

It isn't a useless thread. The issues affect many youtube channels, sometimes even those of the content creators

To Noun and Relic this issue is surely far from irrelevant because these issues (and the press coverage thereof) have mainly shown the content copyright owners in a very bad light. However, it seems that many of them, upon whose authority videos were either blocked or their monetization (ad revenue) claimed, do not really know what is going on.

It seems the problem is created mainly by some (many?) companies just uploading every content they have (even trailers and B-reels specifically designed for use in such videos) to the system. Youtube's content ID system really is just a big stupid robot, designed to save lots of work hours by automatically flagging videos. However, in the process it is creating a lot of work for community managers etc. like Noun because they now need to whitelist many content creators manually.
If you think it is bad now, wait for the holiday when basically nobody is in office to whitelist stuff (or if in office have other stuff to do). The amount of videos appearing on my youtube feed for the last week or so has gone down already (partially because the video makers have to deal with the whitelisting and copyright claim BS but also) because they are earning money from the ads displayed on each video.
This revenue is currently either disabled or going to the claiming companies, they aren't earning anything from the videos and thus have to look for alternative video services (or look for other jobs/side jobs) if their income depended at least partially on youtube.

Seriously, those issues are far from irrelevant. If you enjoy high quality youtube videos, this is a real issue because in the future you may get far less of that. Youtube cranked up their content id system up to 11 (and some people at content owning companies do not understand it, and some people even abuse it).

Depending on what you try to find, you can do a Google search with
"site:www.coh2.org"; or even "site:www.coh2.org/replays parano1a", also works for the forum and sub-forums.
It isn't as good as a site search could be but when I use it, it normally helps me find what I am looking for. Especially for finding replays from players it works pretty well.