Is World of Tanks Pay to Win?

HeatResistantBFG: So there is a lot of Wall-o-Texts here and not going to lie and say I read them all, but I read a lot  So, I'm going to say World of Tanks is in no way Pay to Win (shocker, I know), and we are quite open that we are pay to progress. I quite liked that flow chart but as with anything it is open to subjectivity, realistically there is nothing you can get in-game that is the "Best" for money. And if you were going to say "X prem tank says otherwise" well any tier 10 says otherwise, and as long as you will face tier 10 and there is no tier 10 for sale only then it isn't pay to win. "Tier 9 prem tank so tier 10 prem tank soonTM" response before you say it Before the "oh but you said you'd never sell tier 9s, so only a matter of time before OP Tier 10 prems" actually no, we never said that... we said near the opposite, in one of the QnAs a couple of years ago someone asked if tier 9 and 10 premiums were considered, and the reply was roughly that "tier 9 is something we have considered, but it wasn't being focused on" (at the time). And currently, I can say we asked for a stance on this and as it stands there is no plans for tier 10 premiums. Not that we are considering them but not atm or anything like that, just simply we are currently not considering them.   So for now at least, tier 10 tanks are not exclusively sold and will always be the "best" and therefore no tank can technically be pay to win, as an "available for free" one is always better and available  All in all, there is nothing in this game that can give you an advantage that can be only/exclusively obtained for real money, therefore objectively it remains not pay to win. You can pay to get stuff quicker and spend less real-time getting it, but that's not paying to win, that's paying to speed up/progress. Having resources can give you an advantage sure, but unless there is an exclusivity it doesn't meet the objective meaning of pay to win.