This games future looks worse than World of Tanks, and that's saying something.
As of 29. of January my opinion is yet to improve. In fact it feels like the game has slid deeper into the rabbit hole that is an extremely poor experience.

Having reached 9.0 and having played there for fair amount now. For starters, the supposed endgame doesn't sport enough players to even fill up matches and thus most are played at half-strength teams resulting in extremely short and unfun games. Gaijin also has introduced more and more modern tech, smart bombs and other guided munitions in attempt to mask the games problems. Their two latest maps have been absolutely atrocious, extremely easy to begin spawn camping, flat and ugly.

Probably the least enjoyable end-game I can recall, you spend your sanity (100's of hours) grinding to the endgame with constantly worsening game play loop, and are rewarded with extremely poorly performing and barely working call of duty with tanks. And then the sanity leeching starts in earnest as you play with 7 single-life players against players with 3 or 4 spawns.

The game still suffers from unreliable hit registration, and audio bugs have returned with some vehicles being utterly silent and others sound like being next to you when they are in fact maybe 100+ meters away.

One fun fact was Gaijin hosting an Q&A where they straight up said that players don't know what they want, but they do, then they gave us more methods for aircraft to gank tanks in a mode that is still named Ground battles.

Also seal clubbing has not gone anywhere, with the introduction of battlepass it has indeed gotten worse in my opinion.

- Still no tanks only mode, have fun getting ground pounded in every match above 3.0.
Everything above 6.3 is painfully stupid and a chore to play in my opinion. Maps just are not suitable for anything newer than 6.7. Stabilizers, cheat-fs, atgms, breech shooting makes short work from any fun you might have had.

Yes this game has modern stuff, is it fun? No. Will you get there? No. This game is literally so grindy that most of the content is beyond casual player.