1) Can you please provide some detail about how the rules don't "measure up", so that we may have a discourse about what exactly you find holding the product back? I honestly don't understand how "as satisfying as full ASL" can come into play with ANY of the SK modules. I assume you feel the same way about SK 1,2,3, so we can just discard that point, right?
2) Have you noted that some nice full ASL chrome is SSR'd into other SK PTO scenarios? A river and foot bridge, Tank Hunter Hero and even Caves. And the scenario with the river and bridge has a COMPLETELY HIP Japanese defense. That just gives me the willies!!
2) Are you aware that there are currently 125 scenarios published for ASLSK, with at LEAST 2 dozen in the works? 2 new ones, always meaty and awesome, get published by MMP with each edition of their Special Operations magazine. Joseph G has a scenario pack of 5 infantry only ones that are soon to be published and others in the works. SK PTO Expansion pack has 8 more coming that are already well into playtesting. That will have some very nice editions to the SK PTO module that will maybe mollify some of your issues. Those include addition of Chinese (with Dare Death Squads and Human Wave included) and the scenarios also include ANZAC and Phillipine units. One scenario has a fighter bomber and functional AA gun (twin 12.7 buzz saw) SSR'd in.
I also verified at ASLOK this year that there IS a Stalingradesque SK HASL under development, which is AWESOME news! Sadly it has been shelved by the developer until he clears out some big full ASL work he has undertaken. ?
With 125 scenarios, you could play both sides of each scenario each month and go TEN YEARS without a repeat. Add in the DaE campaign game and the 8 MASSIVE 4-board Scenario Design Contest scenarios, each of which could take months to play out and then another set of months to replay the other side. The largest one of the SDC's has around 160 counters in play at the start of the scenario!!! ?
Oh!! I totally forgot that someone repurposed the old Squad Leader Scenario 20 Breakout at Borisov (5 boards, 130ish counters) for SK (maybe 110 counters). I don't know about you, but I could spend 6 months on that one easy.
Isn't that enough scenarios for you, at least for a while?