Panzercracker
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I assume you are referring to the Panther-G which was by all accounts the best of them, I think it was Guderian that wanted to focus on the Pz-IV but I do not quite understand the benefits of producing thousands of out dated vehicles when they already had one of the best (if not the best) tanks (the Panther) of the war in production.
I think the production numbers vs survivability and development potential would have come out in favour of the Panther by a long shot, on top of this they already had the Jagdpanzer-IV in production so it isnt like they would be wasting the existing Pz-IV chassis.
Panzer IV was better than any tank save the firefly in the west and in the east the Russians were horribly bad tankers at tactical and strategic level so Germans needed numbers rather than quality, a single panther cant be in two places at once, two Pz IVs can, the Tiger was justified as the defensive tank, the Panther was a luxury.
Also i've read some of the previous posts on american tanks, all western tanks were rubbish, the best ones can be classified as mediocre, they had inadequate firepower, inadequate armor, the only thing remotely decent was the Pershing.