I'm guilty of thinking this game sucked initially also as someone with vast wargaming experience and coming from the previous CM classics. I played the tutorials and loved moving the units around individually or in small groups but had difficulty with the cameras. When I played the first battle I was quickly overwhelmed by the amount of units to control and the speed of the action and figured, this is rubbish. Now however, I am coming around to how it should be played. Not as a CM game in real time and definately not as your classic C&C type RTS. The key difference I found is in using the terrain to maximum effect and make micro moves rather than large sweeping advances. This is a great game and the rewards will come to those who persevere I feel. Remember too that this is effectively software version 1 and generally there will be bugs and minor issues. Once the patches address those issues, the game will be even better.
