The problem is more with them abandoning idea of uniqueness for nations and adding copy-paste subtrees.
My guess is that they are abandoning the idea of national tech trees all together in the future… They abandoned the idea of no top tier premiums for example which was the core idea of tech trees before.
It was believed to be fake for 80 years with only one veteran having a written down account of its existence. Amazing that it turned out that one dude was not misremembering some other things that happenned
also the panzer 1 with 75mm is not using an encased turret, this is.
If I remember right German cannons with there ammo was designed in a way that most captured artillery could be bored out used with little further modifications. Germany was banking on captured equipment to fill out what there industry could not. To the point some USSR equipment was found on the western front being used by the Germans.
This kinda feels like saying the UK can only get the Jagdpanther 14/15 if Germany got it as well even though both this and the T-34-88 were mods solely done by the Uk and Germany respectively
While I personally disagree with putting a 1 to 1 copy in multiple trees, I can recognise there’s a legitimate claim for the soviet tree. That being said it’s silly to deny the country who originally made and used the modification if it also didn’t go to the USSR