I think that what most people want is a satisfying gaming experience.
What makes for a satisfying experience is vastly different for each individual . AH is entertainment. I could be doing anyone of a thousand different things with my time. I chose AH because it seems to be the best gaming simulation based on propeller driven airplanes. If anyone comes up with a decent WW1 flight sim, I will be in that arena in a heartbeat. I like wings with wires, open cockpits, weak guns, low horsepowered -paper-winged deathtraps. My preferred fights would be a 1915 arena with Fokker Eindekker or Morane Bullets, or 1916 with Halberstads and DH2s. Try those on and you will think a Zeke is a rocketship. But there are no non-arcade WW1 flight sims other than RB2 )(which needs a outdated video card). Man if HTC would do with a WW1 arena like they have the WW2 arena life would be bliss.
In the gang-bang or be gang-banged quake-like furballs of the main arena what do you take other than a airplane that suits your flying style? It better be fast and have good acceleration, or a good turner for all of those low on the deck knife fights where most people fly. Most fights and most kills are less than 2k off of the deck. So stay fast, avoid HOs and you will live long enough for one of the good sticks in the game like Fester to send you home with your nuts in a paper bag.
I tried the CT, but being gang banged in the CT feels about the same as in the MA, just fewer people.
So depending on how planes in the new FM in AH2 sort out, many people will gravitate to those models that work best in the furballs, and it will be the same, just different.
That may be due to what I think what most people find most satisfying in a gaming experience; being the shooter and not the drone.
BTW I love the Yak, it's just that I start out every Yak flight low on fuel and amost out of ammo
