But getting back better ruddershift and 100 more HP (for some reason) than Yamato.

Musashi is simply overpowerful for tier 9, as you get most of a Yamato, with the downside of worse (but still adequate) 1.8 sigma, even worse and utterly pathetic AA, worse secondaries. The reward ships tend to do better than the most popular tech tree tier 9s, which is often the first tier 9 given the number of battleship main players. Now there is a bit of selection bias, as it was available (IIRC) for both 750,000 FreeXP and later also for 176,000 coal and reward ships tend to end up in the hands of players after they have got to higher tiers for some time. In raw stats with well over more than 2 million games on both the NA and EU servers, it is the best performing on both servers for both Win Rate and Average damage of the tier 9 battleships. Even when compared to Jean Bart (my most played ship). Whilst I don't have Musashi my understanding is that along with being very popular, it overperforms (these tend to go hand in hand esp. I feel like I'm not alone in my thoughts and would like to see the Musashi become obtainable again in some way or form. If the Musashi is added to the steel, coal, or RP ship lines, I will save all my resources to get it, no matter how long it takes.

I am not saying make it cheep (I think 30,000 steel sounds reasonable), but at least make it obtainable through some means besides preying on Santa containers (since I don't own most of the premium ships and odds are near zero to get a musashi in the first place, I'm not even gonna try that way unless I literally win the lottery). I think they should add Musashi to the steel, coal, or RP (research point) ship lines, I think it fits there perfectly. I completely understand the developers reasons for removing Mushasi from the store (not saying I agree or disagree) but removing it completely?!? Musashi was removed to my knowledge because it was becoming too popular in the tier 9 line up (too many being played) the same reason was used to remove the Jean Bart, but then they add Jean Bart B to the store. But the one ship I would like to play has supposedly been put out of my reach for eternity, I started playing world of warships just after Musashi was removed from the store, so I never had a chance to get it. I love and play all the lines of the IJN BB, CV, DD, Cruisers (which are like big DDs).

World of warships musashi or krons