EZ:
We actually remember it.
It was a dumbster fire on a trainwreck falling off a cliff bad.
But over 10 years of patches and polish people like you seem to have forgotten how tremendously bad CoH2 was for first 6 months.
It was so bad, we literally had a cartoonist make memes out of it.
...and not to forget only 2 factions, both less fun to play than vCoH factions. Including flaming Soviet Clown car.
It was obvious that Relic didnt have the finance/manpower at that time to pull it of. Whole design of CoH2 was on a very low level at release.
Coh3 base game with 4 factions and tech diversity bears already the core ingredients for the masterpiece it is about to become.