[2022] Would you rather repair costs be removed entirely and SL gains be drastically less?

The BR change of the CL-13 (if that's what's being referred to here) was nothing to do with a "small group of users". There were significantly more people playing that vehicle than just the 4 that claimed to have influenced it and the vehicle itself had had a positive trend for several months before, which is a prelude to a BR increase anyway.

Further to that, the only changes beyond that were due to direct player feedback from the topics collected on the CL-13.