How does Gaijin determine vehicle's status?

So seeing the addition of the C-304 as a premium vehicle to the german TT I ask myself,
There are some premiums that are just reskins of TT vehicles or variants of said TT vehicles, others are completely unique and they are usually a prototype, but many TTs also have prototypes vehicles and so do Event or battle pass vehicles
What is the criteria that a vehicle must have to a premium, Tech tree, or event status?
what determines if the statcard has a little bit of a gold tint in it?

money milking potential

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Can be a few different reasons
Did the country make/use them?
Is it a copy paste with extra decorations added?
Was it just a trial/demonstrator?
Was it a prototype?
Is the vehicle actually needed anywhere or just money making potential?

and so on

Premium Status is determined like everything is determined by gaijin. Random whatever.
Maybe Anton bought a new chair at Ikea and liked it, so he decided to make the next swedish event tank a premium.
Next day he hit his toe on that chair and decided that the tank will now be released as a 80$ pack premium, instead.

I think they just throw darts at a board whilst drunk and blindfolded.