HE isn't the problem, gold is

Draschel:  While ammunition may equal the aiming field, it does not equal the battlefield.A medium tank or light tank, or lower tier heavy, can switch to premium ammunition and open up new penetration opportunities on a higher tier target. That may otherwise, and usually does, bully low tiers. However, while aiming is provided as easier now, it does not solve the facts of:  higher tier has more alpha probably, more DPM probably, more HP, will likely trade far more positively, and will need to aim less while you aim more  (again he gets a DPM buff, and you get a DPM nerf)   In the case of med vs heavy,  meds do get DPM, but heavy tanks get alpha, and in a general positional fight which late tiers usually boil into, position and trading happen more than open DPM onslaught. Heavies are favored, heavily.  Furthermore, a typical med still needs to aim at where it shoots heavy tanks even with premium selection, premium doesn't simply void armor. But a heavy, if it is using premium vs a medium, generally can even frankly auto aim the target, and expect penetration except vs 430U, which is a heavy.....(113) Again, heavy tank is favored. So while people like to moan, cry, exaggerate the issue.....far more likely the case is....the heavy tank still has the advantage in confrontation, even when premium factored in. The true equalizer here is class benefits. Medium tanks are faster and dynamic, are smaller and cast less arty shadow, have better camo rate. These things, allow medium and light tanks, while using premium ammunition, to exploit a heavy tank while it is left in helpless situations, like Prokhorovka  Malinovka  Redshire   Murovanka. This pisses off heavy tank drivers, insanely and is a cause for extreme frustration because they are being hit by a prem spamming invisible tank.  But the real problem isn't premium, the problem here is maps and position.  It happens the other way around too,  arty hate being  on  Ensk, Himmelsdorf,  Paris,  minsk.  S1  TD too, same thing.  This is an issue, of classes and maps,  not really about prem rounds being a disease.  Then there is MM.  Are we really going to blame a PZNA38 penetrating  OI  into the sides with 70 damage APCR? When the PZNA has to do it tens of times for lethality,  while the  OI  can easily 1 shot it?  How about a poor soul  HK12, using HEAT vs object 268V4 for 240 damage, just to let the driver know he won't be pushed around.  What is wrong with this? Crying about premium is a scapegoat. It is what bad players cry foul with, because they are outplayed and want SOMETHING to harp back with. Or in the wrong class, wrong map.  Everyone can use it, no one should be a baby and cry over it.