OTOH can use it - if you use it reasonably, that is. Defending units, in prepared positions, often cleaned their fields of fire and sabotaged roads. Of course, if you use the "terrain-removing" feature to make an entire enemy half of map bare as Khruschev's head, it's abuse, however if you decide to use it to remove say few trees blocking the FoV of your critically placed AT-gun bunker, then go for it
