Well, a lot of the mags are kinda shit.
They weren't really made to last, either, grunts who used them a lot regarded them as expendable and to be thrown away after you used them long enough, to be replaced with new ones. Some people also have a shit time with the 30rd M2 Carbine magazines, but it should be noted that the M2 Carbine has a different magazine release which supports an added lug on those magazines to allow them to feed properly. You need that magazine release or to not load those mags fully, even if in good condition.
These things were never really supposed to be full on infantry guns, and the magazines being like they are is one of the signs of that
Reason #1,944,806 why tankies are imbeciles that deserve to be shot. Love how they completely ignore that the DDR was more than happy to use ex-NDSP soldiers and officers for their own military and security services.
Plenty of old Nazi spooks in STASI, but with tankies you're flipping a coin on how that's either a lie or how that's ok when they do it. May seem unsightly at a glance to those not versed on these subjects, but when the country is cut in half, and is now going to be a tense front where the expectation is that shit could quickly get WAY out of hand in a matter of minutes, you kinda badly
need people who know how to fucking do shit.
Soldiers for a defensive garrison? A lot of these viable Fritzes and Hansels are Wehrmacht or even Schutzstaffel veterans, some may even be outright war criminals, but just a few years ago, they were kissing the dirt in foxholes and trading fire with Russian or American soldiers in the biggest war in history. Someone who fought hard and survived in a Volksgrenadier division is gonna have a lot of important things to teach the newbie soldiers for the Bundeswehr, just tell them to keep in line and that they're defending Germany against Communists.
I've also seen tankies make comparisons in equipment made between the Wehrmacht and the early Bundeswehr, but what exactly are they supposed to do, throw away perfectly good gear and weapons (which the veterans already know their way around, by the way), for some passing and shallow ideological comfort? The East Germans sure didn't, they ran those K98ks and Stg44s until the AK became an option.