It's ai potency is neglicable when considering it faces 5 to 6 men squads imo. Considering other heavy tanks with more ai killing power face 4 men to 5 men squads and only 4 men squads when facing Ostheer, the Panther is really lackluster, espeically the Ostheer one.
It's not just this..
1) All mg's need to face a target, which is rather improbable most of the time since you will be constantly on target vehicle only
2) Unlike aoe based weapons mg's are directly affected by scatter drastically and highly dependant on the range far more than main guns he shells,
and you don't want your panther to get a snare...
3) The panther "generalist" requires a 60 muni upgrade to have the supposed "generalist" performance..but
it's not like firefly is reliant on tulips to do it's at job
4) the dps coming from mg's is, like i already said, directly affected from accuracy far more drastically than main gun's. Lategame maps are full of covers and craters that reduce incoming accuracy of infantry...this doesn't affect..let's say...
Comet dps that much, but the Panther generalist...well...
But obviously "panther generalist and panther no micro" meme from balance team served its purpose and now even okw panther is trash.