First of all, we don't care about polls, this isn't a democracy we are running here...
The reason sniper rifles are limited are:
1. Historically, with some exceptions like British paratroopers, these were company or platoon level assets, similar to heavy MGs or mortars. These weapons tend to be pickup only in FH2.
2. People always want to have more of "cool" assets on a map, but what they don't realize is that what makes these weapons "cool" is in part their rarity. If everyone can run around with them, a rare weapon system loses its appeal.
3. Gameplay-wise, unlimited snipers would slow down infantry combat by a lot and encourage tons of long range shooting with little movement. If 2 or 3 people do that with their sniper rifles, it is fine, but not too many.
4. Regarding the "memoirs" of veterans, note that many of them call any single rifleman shooting from a bush a "sniper" regardless of he had a scope or not. I looked at the original documents and can tell you that in the German or Russian army, far from everybody had a scope. It is not like in western armies today, where they hand those out like candy for every schmuck with an assault rifle.
5. You want 1- 4 sniper rifles in each team, but that is literally already the case on all of the 64p maps.

Nice. I didn't know F/8s made it to Rzhev before the end of '42, wonder about the unit... ?

2nd Luftwaffe Field Division had 4 Stugs that took part. IIRC the Soviets managed to capture 2.

Not possible because the tank crew is not rendered inside the tank. Doing so could lead to glitches due to netcode, like you can sometimes kill an M10 driver with an MG42 through the armor because it shoots fast enough.

Generally speaking: You should be aware that we developers are a lot smarter than you. If you can think of something, we have thought of it before. So logically the reason that it is not in is that it is not actually possible in the engine. So basically stop with these nonsense suggestions.

The suppression effect in FH2 is already a repurposed tear gas effect from the BF2 special forces expansion. I don't think this could be applied to vehicles, only infantry.

I think you are not understanding me: This phenomenon is not related to weapon recoil settings, but the game tickrate and how recoil frames are rendered. It is not something we can easily fix.

Is it possible that one of your developers, without your knowledge, improved something in the behavior of bots?

That is impossible, the only change made to 2.58 was to the launcher and the bren carrier crash fix on Port en Bessin. All other beta changes were held back. Also, nobody is working on AI and any change is shown in our automatic changelog. We also didn't change the MP40 recoil. It is all in your head, I'm afraid.

Consensus seems to be that it's fine, so knock yourself out.