Well the Sturmgeshutz was allocated to the artillery units only. In its original form it had a short barreled 75mm gun designed for direct fire support, bunker busting.
Later when the T-34 came into Combat it was the easiest vehicle to up gun to the long 75mm anti tank gun but it was still only used by the mobile artillery units. They even had different uniforms then the Panzerwaffe.
The later Stug with the long 75 was technically a tank destroyer and the only unit capable of taking on a T-34.
Stug's had the highest tank kill total of any vehicle ever produced even to this day.
To be classified as a tank it has to have a turret, Mobile artillery was indirect fire, Assault gun's are direct fire, And tank destroyers are essentially assault guns equipped for the anti armor role, at least in the German army.
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