@ragnarok013 fully agree with you about exit (and to a large degree, entry) animations. Musical Tonks was often a tense but hilarious game!
Disagree slightly about internal repairs though. Although they essentially result on the same thing, internal repairs are a vast improvement on auto regen. At least internal repairs requires a 'manual input' by the driver.
The lack of external repairs by other classes is more due to the fact that gunning in BF1 and BFV is boring and/or to deadly compared to earlier titles. This means that dedicated Repair Monkeys are a rare breed now.