I really look at the ops report for ship/troop/squadron reinforcements, lost ships, port/AF expansions and ship repair info. The rest is just filler that I need to visually blank out.
I'm at the opposite side on this, I want more information. [;)]
I like the garrison idea but in a perfect world I'd like to see the garrison model tweaked. Two things in particular stand out for me-
Not a big fan of an allied sir robin and the japanese showing up to a wrecked city.
Seems like the Japanese should have to use a higher garrison ratio in China than the Chinese.
Pilot Training
9. Increase the speed of pilot training, it's too slow after patch 1 and is now useless for shorter scenarios.
To me patch 1 looks much more realistic than the first version, which is still much faster than the japanese pilots moved through their training system in reality.