BRs can only work to an extent, and in some cases they do artificially nerf things.
You were the one complaining about being lolpenned by the M51 and such, yes? With a nerf to APHE, that will be happening with most rounds, not just the M51 and other HEAT slingers.
Hell- I am on the side that agrees that heavies should at least have a distinct role from mediums and be usable, able to tank non-high pen rounds fairly well. With this change they will be exactly what you fear- completely useless, their armor only a hinderance.
Or the tanks that can’t face them get put down in br. Many tanks are far higher in br then they could be if their aphe wasn’t a nuke. Wouldn’t you guys like you t34, panzer, m18 etc lower br? These changes could result in many many vehicles going back to their lower br as many have gone up multiple times in their time because their aphe is so deadly.
Because it’s not changing. It will still be here so many of the aphe shots will still kill tanks they are claiming will now shrug them off. Overpressure makes many tanks aphe mechanics change nothing vs many tanks.
I honestly think that this change is not made by gaijin because he does not feel like modifying the damage mechanics, possibly it is something that requires a little work, and gaijin prefers to spend that time adding new premium tanks and a few tech tree ones, for example. That makes us a survey that knows it is going to be lost, and thus forgets about the issue, as happened with the shock of the crew members. In any case, gaijin knows what is right and what is wrong, they have the data, and they see how Clearly a tank with APHE kills three times as much as a tank with any other type of ammunition, so if they haven’t changed it, I highly doubt they will, unless almost the entire community demands it aggressively.
Maybe British tanks are built different, but the firefly, concept 3 and avenger are perfectly capable of disabling or even killing Tiger H1s and Panther Ds.
They cannot do cheese shots either.
Sure, you may end up getting more assists but is that really that big of an issue?
That’s why I mentioned overpressure as an example because it won’t be as universal an effect/nerf as you are saying. This is why they want to have a test event.