Dear, whether tracked or wheeled vehicles are better protected all depends upon how much weight are you ready to put on wheels or tracks. And which, out of tracks or wheels, is better suited to take n heavy weight ind different terrain areas.
Your Point 1 is true, but is applicable only to those areas having good road networks, not all.
Your Point 2, yeah, numbers always count, but more number on ground, or more troop to space ratio,present easy and plentiful targets as well. Moreover, more numbers need more money.
The Conventional Answer
I don't know how effective heavy weight is compared to the costs it brings in, in modern combat. We see heavy Turkish tanks being blown away with single ATGM hits.
Research shows that ATGMs cut through steel like a knife through butter. Protection against ATGMs has to look beyond adding mere weight. It makes little sense to put on weight solely because of ATGMs because, no matter how much weight u put on, you are still open to ATGM hits.
This is how tech has evolved. There was a time when knights would wear very heavy armor. Then guns and gunpowder came, and it didn't make sense anymore because whether you wear armor or don't wear armor, you are still dead from a gun shot. So medieval armor became a thing of the past.
Weight always sacrifices mobility, which in turn sacrifices survivability. A toyota pickup can perhaps survive ATGMs better than a tank these days. In Syria, pickup trucks have found a way to avoid ATGMs by reversing the vehicle at a critical point before impact. The acceleration it can do, makes it impossible for the ATGM to change course in the last minute.
Something Turkish tanks, or any tanks could not achieve against ATGMs in theatre.
Ways of being able to carry weight are many. One can increase tire width. Number of tyres. etc. The desi approach is "oh this can't be done". This is the mind of a slave. They are unable to think beyond what they have been told.
But the free spirit finds ways. It innovates. It says "yes I can do it, let's try". And that is the mindset that is missing.
The Less Conventional Answer
Imagine building a wheeled vehicle. 25-30 tons. It uses innovative ways to increase protection and mobility. Automation allows a two man crew, decreasing inner dimensions - increasing protection for a given weight category.
Imagine that it further reduces weight and space requirements with a smaller gun - after all - what use is that big main gun when fighting tanks, the best bet is an ATGM? Instead, it have ATGMs of its own to shoot.
Imagine it uses thicker wheels and finds ways to increase the number of sets of wheels. It finds ways to allow a given wheel size to more efficiently carry its weight.
The smaller main gun is good enough to support infantry and for destroying anything but a heavy tank. Say, the 76mm Rooikat gun which can take out a T-55 with a single shot. Certainly would be good enough for 95% of battlefield use. For that extra 5%, the vehicle simply uses boxed ATGMs instead.
Imagine this vehicle uses armor innovatively. It finds a way perhaps to create a double layer of ERA. Combines this with spaced armor, cage armor. The vehicle also possibly uses active and passive kill mechanisms. The vehicle could find ways to trigger the ATGM from further away.
But none of this is ever possible because desi armies do not innovate. You will never see them come up with a new tech or new way of warfare. They will wait for the West to build something and only if the gora does it, they will follow. In this kind of a situation, every word asking for innovation is a word wasted.
I'll give you an example. In 2010 I wrote a paper with
@Munir on how armed UAVs can help Pak overcome Indian forces. Jokes, sniggers and insults were all we got from desis. The only people that took these papers seriously was the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics who summarized our findings in their reports. It took goras to appreciate this.
Now that Elon Musk and the West are taking armed UAVs seriously, you can bet our pendus will now jump on the board and start discussing how they can get "TOT" for it. This gap in mindset is not a technology gap. It is a mental gap. The gap between brown people that are educated in a manner that leaves them feeling inferior and looking up to the white man. And free people who can think independently.
300 m of the target.
...sobs...
