These have been broken since before I was COL, and few people remember that nowadays.
The thing is that if you want to change the playermodels you'd need to find some that are accurate enough - SAS models for Spetsnaz GRU dont really make sense and people are just going to bash on you for that. Garnet has been pretty adamant on playermodels for some time now, so idk if this would get accepted or not. It would be easier to have someone fix the playermodels and then suggest them so Garnet only has to swap them out.