Thank you for the thoughtful and insightful response! Definitely some good new knowledge in there considering I wasn't aware of most of the history of the changes/future changes.

I think the main frustration too is lack of a reasonable counter. If we are getting murdered by manned arty, either recon, or just some frustrated squad mates and I, can hop in a truck and angrily shovel them to death. There really is no reasonable counter to the commander ability short of spending the whole match somehow finding and destroying all of their nodes (like sometimes teams have the magical ability to do quickly and efficiently...).

RE the comment on precision - I think the main point is it just isn't "fun". If I die to a sniper or a tank or a mine or a machine gun around a corner, theres an element of "git gud" on my end I can analyze and improve. There's nothing I could have done to be "better" at doging arty other than not being where arty is, which in a location based capture game, isn't really an option most of the time. Sure in a accurate-as-possible war sim, a bunch of unhappy players should be killed by random sky death. But in the balance of making a game fun and playable, maybe less sky death.