Its not so much comparing an antique sports car versus a modern sports car, it is more like comparing an antique toy model of a car against a modern real sport car.
I would not have any problem with playing WWII tank sims, and I did in the past (Panzer Elite). If I have a principal problem with WWII matter, I would not have tested SF and even pay money for it, nor would have have done IL2 and BoB and SH3. The problem I have is that TvT and SF do not do well what they do - no matter whether i compare them to SBP or take them for themselves, or compare them to any other quality sim. They deliver the looks of the times, but not the functionality that one must demand in a good sim in order to label it as that: a
good sim. thats why back then I gave SF two final scores: taken as an action game I gave it a B, taken as a sim I gave it a D-, if i remember correctly.