To give you an idea about what a hopeless team weapon looks like, try to imagine yourself, playing as OST and coming across 3 abandoned Soviet PM-41 mortars. Would you ever waste the manpower needed to recrew them? I bet not.
You probably wouldn't even bother destroying them, so that your enemy can waste more of their manpower to recrew them. M-42 shouldn't be such a hopeless unit.
Why are you talking about a hopeless team weapon with no intention of fixing it just before a patch as one of the guys repsonsible for it? It's not like it doesn't affect infantry scaling at all, which is in scope
I'm not nagging just genuinely curious