For me, you're wrong.
I love all the detail, and I do read it. I very often look for descriptions and there's none, which is then disappointing.
I also love the detailed commander info you sometimes get. Only sometimes. I wish there were more, always.
Same here. I'd keep the detailed info. For instance, the unit and (if available) the commander info helped ppl who didn't know certain details - like what particular units were involved on each side (especially in the COTA scenarios - on the ANZAC side) or what unit/commander helped to swing a battle, - to get an idea even about less known units, commanders or force compositions (eg. in HTTR, COTA). This enhanced the immersion a lot, already, imho.
When the detailed equipment info (with pictures) was added, even less knowledgable players could then also easily gather what kind of equipment would be able to fight say particular enemy tanks/armored vehicles, for instance, and the infos often provided some details regarding the historical deployment/usage and about advantages or disadvantages of the particular EQ.
Example: Let's say there are users who want to pit some standard Shermans against Panthers, they'll get some hints on the Firefly description tab that - unlike the 75-mm and 76-mm Shermans - the Firefly vehicle actually had more than just a chance against potent opponents like the Panthers at medium range, without having to google such information. The EQ tab increases the immersion even more, as ppl actually get to see/read/know (pictures/written details) what they're pushing around on the map.
"This is the command version of the T-26 tank equipped with a 71-TK-1 radio set. T-26 was a Soviet light tank used in conflicts from the 1930s through WWII. It was based on the British Vickers 6-ton tank but was replaced by medium and heavy tanks when light armor vehicles became more vulnerable to improved anti-tank guns. More than 11,000 units were built during the 1930s, a quantity greater than any other Soviet design for the period.".
The T-26 had been vulnerable from the get-go: The armor of the early version could be penetrated by German carbine SmK / SmKL rounds (AP carbine rounds, the "L" version was the tracer version, very often used with German MGs against unarmored cars/trucks and lightly armored vehicles, light tanks and aircraft) already, more than 88 million rounds were available in early 1939, before the war.
Finnish, German, Polish and British AT rifles, in particular the Finnish 20-mm Lahti L-39, the German 7.92-mm
PzB 39, the Polish
"Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35" (when the Germans had captured large batches of those AT rifles, they icorporated them in destroyer/AT platoons under the designation PzB 35(p) and also gave larger batches to the Finnish Army - its 7.92-mm round could penetrate most German tanks, up to the Pz.III actually) and the Boys AT rifles could easily penetrate the improved version(s) of the T-26.
British, Finnish and German AT guns (37-mm Bofors and PaK 36) could easily destroy those light tanks and had been available before the 2nd WW began, already. So the tank didn't become more vulnerable, the tank was already obsolete on the outset of WW2, as potent AT rifles and guns already existed, they didn't have to be improved.
@ioncore: Just for the record.
Despite its obscolesence, the T26 was last deployed in numbers in 1943, with some units remaining to be deployed at the Leningrad Front until 1944. The tank was then deployed in numbers again during the push against Japanese units in August 1945.
The first version of the SmK round mentioned above was developed during WWI already, it could be used with standard carbines (and possibly with German MGs) and it could penetrate 8-mm of armor, at the time, while the first German
13.2-mm "Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr" AT-rifle could even penetrate the improved versions of the British tanks, if the round hit at a perpendicular angle. Improved versions ("SmK" with steel core, "SmE" with iron core) of the carbine rounds could then be fired with carbines and MGs before and during WW2. The "sS" round (= "schweres Spitzgeschoss" = heavy pointed projectile) was an improved round which had a metal jacket that was completely filled with lead and which had a streamlined shape (providing a longer range), it was not an anti-vehicle/armor round.