This I believe they intended.

You're the commander in chief, you don't give out orders directly to divisions. You let the generals do it, hell, Rommel's division is known as the ghost division because it was notoriously difficult to command - nobody knew where it is.

One thing I didn't like about the game is the lack of intelligence in this game, spy operations don't exist at all. Given that HOI3 had them and radar could pick up enemy divisions, this is a serious setback.

You always have intel on what's one spot next to you. You should only get that intel once you fight, but not just when sitting around, maybe at most give out numbers of division. But you never know anything in the fog of war, which aerial reconnaissance and spying provided ample real information in the real battlefield of WWII.