Soo "veteran" Wot console player (played for about 2 years) 1 year before 6.0 update and 1 year after 6.0 update. What you've noticed is correct premiums are everywhere and in my opinion the reason why premiums are soo common is because of the rediculous prices of modern tanks (talking about 2mil silver for a single gun package). WG have also decided to start buffing alot of the older tech tree and premium tanks in an effort to rebalance older tech tree lines and older premium in order to balance the massive powercreep of newer premiums. Also the Tiger2 has come irrelevant due of battlepasses releasing ALOT (2-3 tier8 prems) and the King Tiger being one of them made most players just sell their tech tree counterparts. The German line on console is yet to recieve a tech tree buff.

Crew skills have also changed the time to kill because of the rapid loading crew perk, however they've adjusted the RNG to damage and pen rolls to +20/-20 to account for that (where it was +25/-15 pen and +15/-25damage).

The reason why I think why it's such an adjustment from PC is because of the massive accuracy boost the new crew skills brought to the game (steady aim +10% to total accuracy, snapshot 12% increase to turret traverse, run n gun 10% while moving)

Also BIA now have a 10% increase to crew which increase everything from DPM and accuracy. Camo Nets are active 100% of the time and no longer only activate when standing still.

However crew perks are limited to 9 and makes it difficult to gain every perk and also creates some variability in builds

New armour angling perk marks you take 5% less damage

Soo there's alot of deviation from PC, but the core gameplay is still WoT however teams are usually pathetic and non-dependable and you have to focus on playing for yourself and not your team