In most cases, his time will come when he is still able to make a name for himself, somewhere or another. As much as we all want to use our favorite general from the war and make him into the next Hannibal or even attempt to outdo his exploits from the war, try to take a more realistic and practical approach on choosing leaders. Germany in particular has a multitude of excellent leaders to choose from, throughout any grand campaign as them. In vanilla Rommel is automatically made feldmarschall in '42 I believe, just as he was IRL. If it still bothers you though, you should be able to mod Rommel and others to be promoted naturally earlier in history/leaders/corresponding country, though if I recall correctly this will only effect the rank the leader is at when the game starts. On the defense the total cap from all leaders is used. This is most crucial when attacking, as if two or more leaders are attacking, the ranking leaders unit cap is used to decide the overall attack's cap. In combat, any unit that is over the leader's unit cap will take -75% hit on combat effectiveness, essientially rendering them useless. Although Darkest Hour and HOI2 do not have the dedicated and rigid OOB of HOI3, you can see its loose outline through this system, with the idea being to place your high ranked leaders in HQ units to bolster the lower ranked leaders leading various corps/divisions. Note that this buff is only afforded to HQs with at least a General ranked leader in charge though. HQ units can double the unit cap of leaders in the provinces they are placed in along with those adjacent to them.
While this intially may seem like a major bottleneck, HQ units exist for this very reason, among others. Sort of like how in HOI3 the higher a leader was in the OOB the more diluted his overall effect he would have on battle, though it would touch more units overall. Think of it as a debuff for that leader being promoted to a position he isn't entirely prepared for command wise, I guess. Promoting them manually does cause them to lose a skill point and sets their experience to 0, as you found out. Even with 500 hours into the game I am not entirely sure on the formula used here, it seems to be a mix of the unit cap and just plain RNG, or perhaps it is simply just RNG. at the given dates in the games files for historical leaders or sometimes randomly. Leaders will not lose skill if they level up naturally, i.e.
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