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for ground vehicles at least, add on armour, recovery points, smoke launchers, lights, optics, and engineering equipment might as well just be visual noise. audience and artists both dont know what those shapes are or what they do so exchanging it with a gear or a piston or am exposed wire, or random starwars greebles just gets the same feeling across
if you are familiar with real military or aerospace designs it takes you out of it but were a niche market