Artillery, why we hate it.

I played the majority of my games in arty back when I played. A lot of people give it stick because they remember that one time they got one shot while moving but the reality is arty is an exercise in frustration for the receiver and the user.
The class is almost entirely team and luck dependent. Bad team; one or both of your flanks collapses and you're screwed. Missed 5 shots in a row? You're screwed. Unless you get a lucky shot there isn't much you can do to help your team. Higher tiers especially were very aggravating. Apart from a couple outliers most high tier arty have terrible aim times, accuracy and glacial reloads with ridiculously high operating costs. Combine with only ever getting half xp for the damage you deal and the huge xp requirements for unlocks and it's a huge grind with little to no pay off.
Conversely, there are a few arty that are just easy mode, like the Sexton II(US) which is just point and click. WG just never knew how to balance it properly and it shows.

Im the anomaly because I actually enjoy arty and have from the start.
I enjoy it on my team - No render range to hinder my assists.
I enjoy it on the enemy team - Mission objective updated.
I enjoy playing it - Counter battery, proper flank support and shinanegans
I enjoy shooting it - Aint much sweeter than munchin on dat juicy arty booty.
I even like it shooting at me - more time shooting at me is less time shooting at my tater team. I build my stuper heavies for defense and its hilarious how many arty shots can and will miss a giant slow blumbering target. I may not do so well so often but when there are several enemies taking several minutes just to kill little ol me seems to make a positive difference a lot of times.

Everyones problem is they have too much pride and not enough humility. They cant accept defeat and die with dignity and honor these days and fall too quick to judge and cast blame on anything else for their loss other than themselves. Being super offended by anything is too powerful as some sort of meta social behavior.
Suck it up, buttercup. You died so it's time to move on!

Arty aint fair and never was supposed to be. It was made with the game and doesnt need too much more change, if any, anymore. They still dont put up decently consistant numbers to make significant differences. Ive rarely seen any arty break 4k and most do 1500-3k. It seems odd how accuracy and stuff can be optimized more than it could before yet I still miss those seemingly guaranteed shots so often...

Then again I am the WoT anomaly and play this game differently than everyone else. Especially you sweaty butt nuggets

I can understand why highly competive players and low skilled players hate artillery. For competive player it feels unfair when they can't control everything in the game and they also feel that it's cheating when someone they consider low skill takes them out with lucky shot. For low skilled players it feels frustrating and hard to understand why they get hit repeatedly when he sits in his favorite spot. Still, presence of indirect fire increases battle difficulty level and brings in random uncontrolled events. These uncontrolled events give a feeling of fake danger and increases tension in the battle making it feel less boring.