I was politely trying to point out that YOU were doing that. I have no actual problems with Crossbowmen retaining legitimacy through the Industrial and Modern Eras. That's why I keep them around.
You can't complain that Logistics Artillery and Bombers are "a special case," and then go around saying that the problem is that Logistics Archers are ubiquitous.
You might, but most people aren't. Modern artillery is better, has the same costs, and survives longer.
I was complaining that your plan to deal with a specific situation required heavily upgraded units. There was no general solution to deal with that. If you didn't have those heavily upgraded units you had a much more difficult time dealing with this specific situation. You required either far more heavy investment than you should (in number of units) or you needed a perfect city from which to build the units first in order to get a number of free upgrades, which relied on having a wonder.
That is a special situation.
Simply pointing out that the damage potential for a certain upgrade is far too high in the modern era, in every situation, every battle, is not a special situation.
Simply having the upgrade is not a special case. Requiring the upgrade to appropriately deal with this kind of a situation is a special case.
The fact of the matter is that an obsolete range unit doing 20% damage to any modern unit is far too high, and even 10%, as many have stated in this thread, not just me, is also too high. So with all the people that feel 1 damage is too much, 2 is an even larger problem.