Your analogy makes absolutely no sense whatsoever since it does not apply to this situation.
sry just trolling, read the title of this topic.
But access to the Pacific Ocean is important 
He’s not wrong tho.
The main point, among other things, is that once you’ve got enough soldiers and specialists to fill up the squads in your current lineup, there’s little use in recruiting more. When you change a squad , you can just strip it down to the mandatory minimum of basic riflemen, and transfer your experienced troops to the new squad.
So once you’ve got enough manpower you end up stockpiling silver orders for soldiers, which you can use to purchase “throwaway” dudes and immediately sell them, effectively converting spare silver in bronze.
Even better if you have unlocked high tier soldiers (II or III), since they still cost 1 bronze each, but coming with more stars they pay off more bronze.
This is usually enough to stack up the bronze you need to max star all your “trusty” soldiers.
Unless you keep unused soldiers in the squads you aren’t currently playing, which serves no purpose, or absolutely want every single one of your soldiers to be a very expensive tier III with 5 stars, which isn’t really worth it.
Anyway, the while upgrade system is about to be overhauled, so we’ll just see, I guess.
As someone who bought the Pacific pack I do not want any compensation whatsoever. I only bought it for the Premium Squads and in fact I was kind of annoyed it made all my stuff higher level because it took the fun out of grinding.
I’d argue the Stalingrad pass is a different situation because they were trying a new mold back then and with the Pacific they returned to the regular standard campaign system, ie you can unlock everything, here’s some Premiums
I prefer to have a nice fresh start with the new update