All true, thanks. I guess I'm just surprised that CA made so many improvements compared to the MTW (1), and left this one thing out (making game worse, unless I'm missing something).

In the old version you could easily balance a province's revenues vs the cost of army(s) in that province. This was very easy calculation of "is this province earning its keep". Which, would have to be adjusted for special circumstance, like it being a frontier province that is really providing security for several lightly defended provices behind it, etc.