I dunno. If you put in WOT-style targeting in Empires, while I think it would be cool, it would probably prove too impractical for the devs to code in. Also: While "don't fix what ain't broke" is a good philosophy sometimes, it's nice to have something new every once in a while. Hence why Garrysmod is kind of starting to lose momentum... All they have now is RP RPRPPRPRPRP.
This is an unneeded change that will utterly ruin tank combat in empires. If I wanted to play WoT I'd go and play fucking WoT. If I wanted to play battlefield, I'd go and play fucking battlefield. I want to play empires, and one of the biggest parts of empires is how vehicles behave.