You can even hear HelpingHans himself say that we'd all like to have more units in the game
TBH, its hard for me to imagine coh2 player who wouldn't share that sentiment.
OKW being pretty massive offender here with so much overlap with ost.
I would love OKW to be as different and unique to ost as PE was to wehr in coh1, but we have what we have and "new relic" doesn't have all that much imagination or will to put extra effort compared to "old relic" of coh1 and DoW1 and 2 era.
Well then you might want to talk to the dev team that put in the OKW 221 and Tiger which are only a couple of examples I can think of right now off the top of my head as to why exactly they're the same units as their Ost counterparts, yet being different if we are to go by your logic.
And since in this update there is strict "no swapping units between factions", Relic got tired of that as well and it clearly is not a way forward.
MG 42 has around a 35 second build time. Engis around 17 second, cons around 25 second.
OST has to build t1 for grens tying up pios.
Either you have no idea what you're talking about, or are intentionally lying as you could merely watch one single OST-SOV matchup to see that SOV consistently maintains a one squad advantage over OST in the early game.
No one opens with CE, unless you build T1, which means axis will have even more infantry sooner in comparison.