Dont take it personal, it's just an idea. You can freely disagree.
I think it's more of a concept rather a real life representation, hard war times bring up hard situations and only the bravest can endure them. The no rifle soldier is both, the bravest and the poorest.
In the game it all gets summed up as numbers, aesthetics are often used to make the numbers easier to understand, that's why HVAP have such a shiny projectile.
Take note that no gun conscripts are not degrading the squad performance if the others wielding a gun have good stats, it's almost like a sneaky buff
I dont take personal accept this idea, most of all I am saddened by these are two starting infantry units. And no matter how they mocked them, no matter how they changed, whatever roles they came up with for them, there will always be a conflict between them and not one faction has such a stupid infantry design. Only the Wehrmacht had a similar concept but which is much better due to the fact that the choice of a unit does not deprive you of support or other units.
And we continue to come up with strange ideas that will continue the conflict anyway instead of radically changing and fixing it.