And every bit of that feature creep came with a cost to reliability. German tanks were buggers to keep running and repair.
They also had problems with the variability of equipment. Because of the corporatist structure of production there were many different suppliers all competing with each other for attention and favour and mostly all doing things very slightly differently on the things they produced, which meant less efficient supply and repair chains.
(Also there was considerable political impetus to inflate the number of tanks operational so as to reassure the higher ups, German practice was not to report a vehicle lost until it was decisively unrecoverable, but that meant that commanders couldn't actually rely on their number of "active" tanks to actually be active, because tanks that were broken down or abandoned but recoverable were reported as active. On the morning of the second day of Kursk one Panzer division was reporting it had "lost" 12 or so of its 40 odd tanks, but only 6 were really working, the rest were all inoperational due to repairs).
The best tank is the one that you can rely on to show up and work. From that perspective Sherman was the best tank of the war because it could be relied on to turn up and work in every theatre of the war because they were reliable and easy to service and repair and had a single supply and servicing chain. (T-34 could be considered a contender but was never tested in as many theatres of operation)
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