Herr Peiper, I never said it was a bad thing?
Even though I am old and an old gamer with CS I see the von Manstein example as something out of the scope of the original designers. They would have offered maybe three 20 turn games in series or four 15 turn games in series and to represent the change in visibility over the course of the three or four different scenarios?
It is really a case of asking the game to do something it was never intended. And, as Rod stated it changes everything that has gone before it on a permanent basis, with no option ot override.
I like some but not all of the changes. Most I can choose to use or not. This one is so large and I have my hands chained that it really stands out for me, to highlight the "wrong" direction that is being taken.