When AH2 went live, I typed in ".radio 2 200". The next day, when I logged back in, channel 2 was still set to 200. Amazing thing, it was there the next day, and it was there everyday since. I only had to type ".radio 2 200" once.
Those people who didn't want to take part in channel 1 at any level and chose to squelch it, they would type ".squelch 1" when they logged in. The next time they logged in, they had to type ".squelch 1". They had to type it each time they logged in.
There are only 2 major differences between channel 200 and the old channel 1. First, it is not automatically enabled. Not everyone is going to see what you type. Is that really a bad thing? Second, your name now has "200" following it. Other than that, it is exactly the same. I can have conversations with people like Frenchy, Nomde, Silat, the AK's, etc who are flying in other countries.
Oh well, I will just shrug, roll my eyes, and sigh. Pretty much the same reaction I have with all the other "major" issues that people seem to claim AH has (you know, like the fuel multiplier and the new icons/gunnery).