Why there is no UNIT MULTIPLIER for the first time? Suppositions...

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In the previous titles of total war (ETW, NTW, Shogun 2, FOTS), there was always that very useful line in the preferences script, the unit multiplier. By a simple modification of the number, you could have whatever number of soldiers you want in your army: 400, 1000 men per unit.
Why it has disapeared? Why a feature, that CA knows it was used by most of the players, has been turn off?

I have a supposition: and if CA knows that Rome 2 is "men limited". Despite the problem of performances and lags, it seems that even with good computers, a few of us can play with more than 8000 men on the battlefield in good conditions. Where are our battles with 20 000 men or 40 000 men? I think, even after patches, this will be impossible in Rome 2. Are we condemned to play with little armies in the next total war titles?
Have big armies been sacrified to have more eye candy features? Like the facial expressions on soldiers faces?

I think there must be a reason for CA having removed this useful unit multiplier and, I don't like to make the paranoid, I think it's for a bad reason, to hide that this game can't handle big armies on most of the computers.

What do you think? Others explanations?