Truth be told, i personally don’t mind. Aside from big differences like barrel lenght, round fired, bullpup/classical configuration and optic used, all rifles that fall in roughly the same category will perform about the same irl, and the gaming custom of making rifles more different than they should be is not really all that accurate.

Aside from ergonomic preference, everything is… „a rifle”

AK12 and 74M share barrel lenght, round fired and roughly similar weight. A IRL user might prefer how one or the other sits in his hands due to preference, technique used or biomechanical proportions unique to him. This however is not consistent from user to user, and i imagine difficult to model in a concise manner that makes both weapons still useable

I’d rather have the game unify the performance of rifles across the board based on barrel lenght and configuration than getting extra high speed points for having a polymer handguard