You're comparing apples to oranges. It's natural for specialists/buffs/nerds to view their subject through a microscope, but you need to step back and adopt a wider perspective, the one shared by 99.9% of viewers. Modern assault rifles put into WWII would be jarring to everyone. But you're talking about minutiae, arcane details that only a very few people recognize or care about. It only looks amateurish to that tiny group.
If you want a real example of a version of contemporary assault rifles placed in WWII, there is the absurd flying back and forth between occupied France and Canada between missions. Not only is this ridiculous, but it misses the off-screen opportunity to dramatize how they got out of occupied France in the first place. The writers don't seem to realize that this easy zooming back and forth between Europe and Canada radically undercuts the sense of peril. It actually makes the situation feel much safer. It's like they're on the Air Canada red-eye between Heathrow and Toronto. Or Doctor Who and his teleporting phone booth. Casual viewers may not notice the source of this undercutting; they'll just feel an odd lack of jeopardy and real concern, even though the plot seems to put the characters through their paces.
Even if they stop doing this, the damage has already been done. They let the air out of the tires. Now they're on the defensive, and have to re-pressurize.
I take your word for it that the insignia are off. A production with a bigger budget would likely have the resources to see to these details. Pragmatic, and sometimes very hard decisions have to be made as to how to allocate limited resources (human, financial, and time). Typically, those resources are going to be devoted to things that both cost the most and matter the most. Behind the scenes, you may have an understaffed costumer who couldn't source and put together all the proper insignia they'd have loved to include because they had so many other important tasks to accomplish in this historical drama. This can be very frustrating, because now they're going to be blamed by WWII history buffs for the flaws, which may have had nothing to do with carelessness.
Part of Aurora's problem is the directing (itself under the guidance of the head writer/s) and also that she's played by a bad actress. The casting in this series is problematic. But the writing is the main source of the trouble.
I'm now watching to see if and how they get around an early sense of repetitiveness (among other fundamental problems).
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