We need to have a serious talk about Gaijin's "APS Tax" and how they are not acting in consequence to their own statements... again

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Previously, when Gaijin decided that all Merkava Mk.4s should be Top BR along with the very best tanks in the entire game, they justified it by saying that “reasonably, should all have the same Battle Rating”, acknowledging that Mk.4M’s Trophy had no impact on the tanks’ capabilities whatsoever.

However, now that they finally are decompressing Top Tier a bit and they finally realized that the extremely underperforming and mismodelled Merkava Mk.4s have no business sitting at the same BR as the Leopard 2A7s, they are pretending that Mk.4M’s Trophy is enough to justify the tank being TWO (2) BR STEPS HIGHER than the variants without Trophy.

So I’m wondering; what exactly is there about Trophy to justify a barely 12.7 tank being thrown into 13.3 once 13.3 is released for tanks like the 2A7s?