Profile of ferrozoica

Lag seemed to be increasingly worse also.

This.

In pretty much every game I played there was a period of a minute or two where the game would freeze completely for both players.

Not massively annoying but I've never had that problem before

The StuG has the same frontal armor as the P-4.

Did not know this. Not sure I'm too happy about it either

The Stug is very good but also very situational i.e. the P4 is a much better choice usually as it can annihilate infantry as well as being useful as anti-tank.

As a few people have mentioned the Stug is good against T3 units. For example Soviet players will usually get 2 T34's in quick succession so getting a Stug out first supported by a Pak is more than enough to deal with them (as long as you position them correctly).

Once it gets stun shot it becomes excellent - have it hiding in the back and use your other armor pieces to flank and finish off whatever you have stunned. On that note it is also very good against KV-8's and IS2's as the P4's have a hard time reliably penetrating them

A few minor issues which I don’t think have been mentioned –

Bulletins: they really do sod all at the moment. They need to be tweaked to have some use. I’m not saying bring back a lot of the damage ones they had earlier but something more could be done. They also should all be unlocked and not require leveling to unlock if any advantage they confer has any significant impact.
I think a large issue is them appearing at the loading screen. If you pick anything other than the standard gren/conscript ones then your opponent knows what you’re (most likely) going to use, which is more of an advantage than the bonuses themselves… Same goes for the commanders really, I would prefer them to be hidden also.

Snipers: I love what they've done with the cover aspect of them but I do miss sniper wars from vCoH. 2 man sniper teams are just silly. Making one guy have the sniper rifle and the other purely spot would also work for me (AFIAK I don’t think you can manual aim with snipers in CoH2 though…?)
How it works now with Ostheer if you pick a sniper you have to hope the Soviet hasn't gone T1, and if he has, you just have to avoid their sniper as much as you can (which just doesn't feel right) and use others methods (mainly mortars) as soft counters.

Mines: only 1 side being able to lay dual purpose mines removes a lot of strategic depth in my opinion (protecting MG42's with them was a vital aspect in vCoH). Making the anti-personnel mine patches smaller could also work and I think a lot of people have suggested this

If they added some sort of circle outlining where the strafe patrols(all strafes) then I think it would be fine

Yes, yes a thousand times yes.

Countless times I've moved my stuff to what I think is a safe distance away (half the map...!?) and yet still the IL-2 tracks my units.

Am I correct in thinking that the OH Stuka strafe needs LOS on the vehicles? As I believe the IL-2 does not.

This could be another easy fix - just require LOS for it