Sattrack takes 30 seconds to recharge.. therefore when a good commander is in charge (enemy or friendly), consider the 30 second intervals as you would the 15 seconds it takes for an evil defender to respawn.

What outstanding combat can a commander achieve in 30 seconds (including starting an approach on undefended Harbor)? Contrast this to what a buggy/recon/ enemy team push / friendly overcompensation / friendly squad to a death trap can achieve. Contrast this to whether or not Sattrack/random spotting could prevent that.
If there is no relevant intel that could be transmitted in the full minute of marching, geeze, that must be a boring game. Noone respawning, no squads moving, no friendly squads advancing.

If you can take Harbor all by your lonesome from the uncap, can't anyone who's actually interested in attacking from behind do it anyways? You might've saved a squad 30 seconds going from Uncap to Harbor. You might've wasted a minute going to harbor by dying to an infantry spawning to kill the commander-spotted blip at H. I might be over/underexaggerating. I might even be a kitty.

if Harbor can be taken by the commander, and he does take it, I'm not seeing how it will be useful. If we had a squad interesting in approaching from north, they would spawn north themselves and take harbor themselves.
Commander could place RDX, given that nothing's happening. But since when was there a slow Camp Gibraltar when PAC controlled the back? A squad might react to take harbor back.. one heck of a long walk. But then why not force that same squad to walk all the way back to central instead of giving the opportunity to respawn right into combat in defense of Central?

However, as long as I can tell the difference between them and lonewolves without tking them and listening to their "Man down! Man down!", I'm fine.
[er.. I meant, looking at the minimap]

Priorities for commanders:
Utilizing commander assets [orbitals, spotting, etc]
Utilizing commander assets well [do not orbital friendly Fruvous, spotting blips near Fruvous, etc]
Making sure squads have some fun [Dunes Fruvous can't have fun if 3 squads spawn Dunes. If this happens move the squads]
Sending supply drops full of banana creme pie to Fruvous
Protecting assets

Q: "Can there be exceptions for certain situations?"
A: No, absolutely under no circumstance can there be any exceptions!
JK. TBH, I don't know of any exceptions so critical for a commander to deviate from the priorities I listed..
He has unique tools, why not use it? If there's something 1 infantry can achieve, why not a squad?