Read more carefully. KV-1 is too durable for its timing. It base durability should be lowered but that does not mean it should go from 270->160 or that is EHP should go from 1000->640. The durability should be move to vet.
Do that yourself, please. I didn't say you suggested it should get identical durability to the T-34/76, but that you wanted to lower its stock durability which would bring it closer to a T-34/76. Why would someone gamble 140 fuel for a vehicle that isn't as distinctly more durable and then be forced to risk it to get veterancy before it properly achieves its damage sponge role?
By decreasing its stock durability you would decrease the distinction between its role and that of the T-34/76, which is exactly the opposite of what you suggested should happen afterwards.
If by a "bit" you mean extra EFH (from 800-1000), more than triple its 3 MG, and an ability giving +15 ROF, 0.8 damage then we can agree, but that not a "bit" but some major buff.
It got the damage reduction ages ago, I'm not sure why you are bringing that up. The only buffs it received recently was the MG DPS change (and are you seriously including the meme rear facing turret MG?) and the new vet 1 ability that is situational.
The argument that why should I build a KV-1 when I can get a T-34/85 was repeatedly post. It has even posted in this thread, so T-34/85 has a lot to do with it.
It doesn't matter what the argument was, you specifically said yourself that it was buffed because it
has been buffed too much exactly because it was being balanced around the T-34/85 and that is a mistake.
which just isn't true. It got buffed because it was bad. The T-34/85 was never a part of that decision.