CT will still have squadrons, from what I gather, just not player created squadrons, ie, you complete training and are assigned to squadron X, while your fellow trainees might wind up in Y or Z. Something like that. I quit paying attention to CT development when they stopped talking about it, so something may have changed since then.
I really don't see why HT would nerf something in the MAs, or even consider doing so, simply because the sister game isn't setup the same way. I really don't think he's anti-squadron, but rather that people are paranoid, and always looking for some ulterior motive on the part of HTC for any change which they think affects them negatively.
AH2 releases "HTC trying to get rid of the poor people."
AH2 arena setup "HTC trying to get rid of squads"
AH2 war reset parameters changed "HTC trying to get rid of everyone but the furballers"
And so on, and so forth.