It should have stayed like that, the current cancer that is War Thunder has become buggy, unpolished, unoptimized to shit and its grind multiplied two-fold. And before you say WoT is worse, consider that the servers are stable and the fact the grind has become relatively balanced, unlike in this game where you seriously have to watch your economy because the SL multiplier rewards keep decreasing for some fucking reason.
Maybe if they split the game for WW2-Cold War content and modern content into seperate clients, I would play again but the grind and Silver Lions changes ruins this for me. Its essentially the Escape from Tarkov situation where the devs want the hardcore autists and leave the average player to dust.