I dont know who you're maxim spamming and having great success against,probably some rank one million with your stacked AT. I would never try maxim spam against a good player/group of good players even if i was high on drugs and drunk off my ass. It'll get you embarrassed,and likely rekt On-Stream in front of hundreds. youll be pinned in your base like a spamming idiot 5 mins into the game,"unless you play purfuct" lol good luck with that.
What you're saying is maxim spam is good against people that dont use thought and have experience. and yes it is good against OKW if you get unlucky and your flak HT hits a mine and has a destroyed engine in front of a bunch of field guns,or it strangles you so bad you cant get T4. Anything cheesy is good against OKW early on. You can choose how you're gonna cheese them until they get stupidly powerful.
And Proof in the pudding Ostheer fanbois,a top 5 2v2 player across all factions thinks that MULTIPLE MG42s is good enough to incorporate into their build. What more do you need?
You can easily get 4 maxims and have them do extremely well, like hell I'm going to ever get 4 MG42's as Ostheer because of the fact that I can't trust them to do their job with how fragile they are combined with the fact it's 240 MP I could put into something more effective.
The MG42 isn't useless, but it does pale I'm comparison to the maxim for being able to survive the shear amount of super high DPS flying all over the field.
A .50 cal crewed by Soviet and a MG42 crewed by Soviets will always do better thanks to the 6 men they get, I honestly don't think the MG42's problem lies in not enough suppression or damage, but in the fact it's stupidly fragile like the .50 cal, while not having the traverse the .50 cal does.
Buff the .50 cal and MG42's survivability, make the MG42 swivel slightly faster, problem solved.