Wow, that's an obscure one. But, my guesses:
1) Most infantry are trained to only fire off short bursts anyway. The whole full auto, unload on people idea was never really a thing.
2) Even with the swapping out of barrels, my guess was the overall cost of parts and speed to manufacture still kept it cheap. Germany's biggest problems were always resources & production capacity - anything effective that was cheap to produce woulda been gold.
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