Clearly you've never played one that had the gold to take advantage of the increased troop limits. It's pretty fun running around with 100+ heavy cavalry and single-handedly wiping entire units off the battlefield every round. Plus they get that increased honor gain that lets them take advantage of this even better. Sure you lose some flexibility, but you also gain the ability to sway the outcome of entire battles virtually on your own given enough gold and decent recruitment centers.
Big cav units don't spread damage very efficiently. It might be nice to see 3k hits for ego but that unit would have retreated from half that damage.
