The Soviets figured out early on that tanks had a pretty short life-expectancy and thus threw the T-34’s together as fast as they could. I don’t think the Germans, with their meticulous standards, could ever come around to that way of thinking. So while the German tanks were certainly amazing specimens, 1 German supertank could not beat 4 or 5 quickly and cheaply produced “good enough” Soviet tanks.
I read somewhere an example of tank design approaches between the German, US and Soviet tank designers (and I’m paraphrasing).
If you took some nameless gizmo common to each tank, the Germans, being clockmakers, would build something precise and delicate that had 30 parts.
The Americans, being tinkerers and producers of the Model T automobile, would produce something robust with 20 parts.
The Soviets, being what they were, would build something using 10 parts that you could beat on with a hammer.