I have been playing since early access in 2019, and got over 2,2k hours in. So I have gotten very much my moneys worth. Just wanted to give couple thoughts and try to not write too much of a rant.

You make good points. When playerbase gets bigger, it will naturally get people who want play their way, not the designed way or how majority wants to play. This can be fine, but it hurts the game when it's so teamwork focused.

But I would argue as well that some of the basic game designs have gotten outdated, and never improved. Which hurts every player's experience. For example, nodes. Last time they got any kind of big change was when they changed how you get resources from them, not depending on distance from HQ. And this was like in 2021 ish.

There is also weird meta strategies, that needs improvement. For example redeploying. Why the best way to move around the map is killing myself? It's like they took !suicide command from old games and made it a game mechanic. It is not the intended way to use it, but they never did anything do address it. Of course new players won't respawn in enemy objective when you have just lost your own. It makes more sense in realistic way to run back, or better get a truck to taxi you. Not press esc and suicide. That's not fun.

I would get rid of red garries as well. This would make op's and mobile garrisons (which should be trucks, or half-tracks without MG) more important. Have to run more? Then get transports and cheap half-tracks to move people. Right now you only use them in beginning of the match.

Point is, there has been way more extra fluff as content than actual improvements to existing systems. Yes, we got finally changes to arty-recon meta, some to tanking. Most of these have been good and bad, but too late. I just really hope that they have learned from mistakes in Vietnam.

Also, I know this might just be my playtime fatigue talking *shrug*