Somehow it feels like the kranvagn meta is over. Because honestly most of the times the mediums of a team decide whether the team wins or loses.
In a ranked battle the hull down heavys meet in certain places and juke it out, that's a given. Because sure the clip and hulldown capacity is "unmatched", but as soon as a med with cross shots is involved the kran without meds is dead in an instant.
Additionally people are getting pretty good at pixel sniping.
Yesterday I had 2 games 0-10 and 2-10 in the first division with my kran dealing ~3 times damage, because the enemys could take positions that would be impossible with a med from our side. covering said position.
I also had 4 games yesterday finishing top 2 with my progetto. Funny enough got sand river from the same spawn and took the position to negate the enemy position that got me farmed in my kran (dealing 1 shot of damage) and voila my team won 10-2
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldofTanks/comments/s8g655/kranvagn_meta_over_or_is_it_just_me/