I choose, where possible, not to play with players who will insist that I do not reclaim their comm when the other alternative is that I lose the ground and the opponents reclaim the comm while my ally futilely rushes Athena.
Yes, I have a list of players I won't play with by choice, for this and other reasons. Yes, it's rather long. Yes, that's why I mostly play 1v1 now.
Neon follows:
[Spoiler]I'm not sure whether it would fix the problem, make it worse, or whatever... but it might be interesting to have a strider "constructor" with the ability to rez rather than Athena, and make it more effective than the commander. I kind of like Athena and wouldn't want to see it removed entirely but I think it could use some reworking. (Perhaps give it a unique unit of some kind it can build? idk.) I also don't know what other properties one would give to a strider constructor - perhaps make it a very inefficient builder for cost (10bp with 800 cost or something) but give it rez and added utility? idk.