Also, top of the ladder != top For added fun, name a "build" that wins all the tournaments!

I was referring to SC2 tourneys Also, players are only sponsored in Teams. There are lots and lots of tournaments where anyone can play. 

Also, MM spam vs Protoss? Really? They can get a sentry to block their ramp and you'll never get up there with your MM ball. Or if you do they'll split you off with the FF. Nearly foolproof? It's a good opening sure, but it doesn't win a game unless your opponent has been doing something way out there. As soon as a Colossus or High Templar is out you basically need to do something more than MM spam. And the FE is still going to be slower than a dedicated MM rush, giving the Protoss plenty of time to prepare.. they can likely even get an Immortal or two out depending on the map to shut down your Marauders hard.

First, I want to establish that I am talking about SupCom 1 and SC1, seeing that SupCom 2 was simplified and I do not care for it and I have not played SC2. TA is a fun game as well, but that is not part of my commentary.

The positive or negative is a matter of opinion. I prefer it where other players do not. Again, I never said anything about being better, but rather being more complex.

The buildings do all work the same, but there are more concerns than SC. You have ground defense, air defense, tactical missile defense, strategic missile defense, shield generation, etc. This makes building a defensive line more complex than SC. Nothing more.

Resources are also more complex. I can build a mining rig, which can be upgraded, and then I can attach energy generators to make it more energy efficient or attach mass storage to make it mine faster or I can build a production facility next to it, so that unit production draws less mass resource.

As for the construction buildings, they produce similar units, but not all units have the same stats. Based on your faction, you might want to slightly tweak your approach. I rarely to never aimed for top equipment because I could push out mid range units faster than the enemy could push out experimentals, and I could apply them to devastate the experimentals with minimal losses. SC is not dissimilar. If you play a long game, as Terran you often go for nukes. As each race, I found the means to detect and prevent every nuke launch. And as every race I had my 'top' units I would aim to acquire before rolling over the opponent. Keep in mind this is SP.

Again, I am not saying one is better than another. I am saying that base building appeals to some people more than others. I feel that I am one of those people and, in my experience, SupCom gives more toward that end than SC. Both are fun games, but in slightly different ways.

Not the entire team, just three of the development leaders.  They formed their own studio called Smoking Gun Interactive.  They left some time between the release of vCoH and CoH:OF

For me it's not about base building or no base building, it's about good base building versus bad. Any game without any sort of base building is usually lacking in depth. However Starcraft II and even SupCom 1 is an example of bad base building, and company of heroes is good. While DowII is also bad.

Base building should be minimal, fluid and not a distraction from combat. It should practically be a part of combat not something totally divorced from it. Starcraft II makes players spend way more time micromanaging their base then actually fighting. There is a lot of wasted time and useless clicking. Supcom I is the same. DowII on the other hand is superior in a lot of ways. It is just so much fun not having to worry about the order and placements of dozens of buildings that serve no purpose but to force you to build them... You can upgrade units and tech while chasing down  or fleeing the enemy. It's non stop action. I used to play 20 minute games that were so exciting and action packed that I thought they had lasted hours. The strategy is still their it's just in the background and you don't have to stare at it constantly.

Of course DowII suffers from a lack of good base building because it is too shallow.  Unlike CoH you can't build effective choke-points and you don't have the range of strategic options. CoH is the best base building system I have seen because for the most part you build on the front line, not secreted away in your own little corner. It could however use some of the streamlining found in DowII.

Although for the most part Supcom1 is superior to SupCom II one of the things Supcom2 does right is move base building closer to the front. Factories become mini fortresses that you can build to protect your border resources, and to reinforce right there at the front line. Which is a much better system then building all your barracks in your own personal corner. Build orders are not strategy, which is where a lot of games get it wrong.

Actually it is. Build orders are strategy that were invented and tested by the players to be most effective and then shared with other players.

All games have build orders except those that give you everything at start and you cannot in any way build or reinforce after that. Any game that needs you to do X in Y amount of time to access Z will have a build order around that.