Yes if I had to choose between the two, I’ll take the Battlefield approach where Zero = Corsair and Bf 109 = Spitfire instead of seeing endless Su-9 1946, ASs-44 and other crap.
Except that just wasn’t true - crews were seriously vulnerable to simply screwing up and getting the tank stuck or having it break down and having to abandon it under fire, ther were 100mm and 88mm guns around that could easily deal to them, they got thrown into stupid attacks by incompetent generals, etc.
Confusing Enlisted with real life is a pretty noob mistake.
When it comes to Soviet tanks, I don’t know a better source than Yuri Pasholok, who so far confirmes my understanding that no T-44s were ever used in WW2 combat