Oh my this complaint never stops does it?
Honestly there are some people who won't be happy until we're all crawling around shooting at pixels with rifles from 500m away
Fact, SMG's were common during WW2 getting more and more common as the war progressed. The proportion we have now is about right for a good middle of the road value and considering that the number varied so much unit to unit and army to army. In fact I would argue that the proportion of semi automatic rifles is what is really much too high, especially on the German side. There were never many G41's fielded and the G43 was only used mid-late in the war, whereas somewhere between 1.5 - 2 million SVT40's were produced and fielded throughout before production ceased.
Fact, there is nothing whatsoever unrealistic about hip shooting. The SMG was designed to provided light and mobile firepower at short range and to excel in clearing buildings. I would argue that it is in fact unrealistic to expect an SMG to even use his sights indoors at a range of mere meters. In the real world would you upon bursting into a room and suprising three enemies use your sights or just riddle them with bullets before they had a chance to lift a finger? Would you stop to take careful aim at a threat as you dashed to cover or just spray fire his way and haul arse to safety?
Another fact, the sad reality is that the way SMG's are modelled in the game promotes using them from the hip. What is the point of even trying to use them over the sights or precisely when things like recoil and inaccuracy are exaggerated to such an unrealitic extent that you're either shooting the sky or gyrating wildly from side to side around your target? Personally I am what murderous_eagle refers to as an SMG'er, when I use these guns I am clearing objectives and taking cap points, most of the time using the sights. But I still can recognise that the prevelance of players hip shooting is only people using them in the most efficient way given their modelling. Yet I bet London to a bloody brick if recoil were realistic on SMG's certain people would be crying their eyes out about 'super accurate bullet hoses'.
What this really boils down to is that there's a group of people that play the game with one hand down their pants and the other on the mouse thinking they're gods gift to RO and above reproach because they rifle solely. People who think the game should be played on and tailored to their terms exclusively. Their attitude has been around since the game was a mod and it is not about to go away. These people need to try using an SMG on a map that has any sort of range and only sparse cover, then they might realise that closing down the enemy, or being a 'rambo' is sometimes the only option. They also need to realise that if you're getting smashed by SMG'ers at close range when rifling then everything is as it should be, because that's what they're designed for.
There we go that's my rant for the month out of the way