‘low damage is its only flaw’ lol. You mean it will kill 1-2 crew per hit, at best. Meaning you need 2-3 hits to kill a panther that 1-shots you back. Sounds great.
M26 should always have stayed under the tiger 2.
T25 would be fine with its old stab, but should go down to 6.0 without it. strictly worse than a STA.
too good against… what? Its essentially a heavy tank and was nearly the same speed as the tiger2 before its engine nerf. If you are trying to say a 5.3 tank would have difficulty frontally penning what is essentially a 6.3 heavy… ok yeah that seems fine. The armor profile is similar to the IS2 which has never been a problem (and yet also got upteired). There are a LOT of good TDs in the 5.3-6.0 range across all nations that have no difficulty with the M26. Panthers, M36s, SU-100, ARL 44, STRV 74, all the arty, ect.
Sure. then he retreats around a corner or hill and you are back to square 1. Or you needing 2-3 shots to kill him means his partner can pull up and kill you where 1-shotting him would have let you move on to the next target. Meanwhile if he gets the first shot, you are dead. Sounds like an utterly awful trade.
Should i do a backflip too? Sounds like an awful lot of work and situations that need to line up for you to generate a single kill vs a tank that one shots you back. There is a reason nearly no one uses apcr. Its bad.