Why did they never add a feature that lets us directly deploy the military to suppress unrest?
Quite a mystery to me that a feature present in pretty much every paradox game is still not present in this one after all these years. They have the violent suppression decree, but that feels quite arcadey, clumsy and like it's trying to limit the player's options through authority. Institutions are pretty passive and don't work in unincorporated states. It is ridiculous that a revolt at 80% radicalism of 5k people can lock my country of 100 million people, with the biggest military in the world for five years and I can't do anything about it. It would cost money to mobilize your army, and it could gradually generate infamy for using the army to suppress unrest. This would also reduce the revolution spam in AI countries every five years. The only concerning part is the balancing, but that's a topic in itself.