For those of you with an interest, do some searching on the "strat" discussions that took place 3-4 years ago.
Nothing has worked out like anyone thought it would. The repeated attempts to "fix strat" fixed nothing, they just brought different problems. To this day there is no logical strat system and certainly no significant "strat" to winning. Winning is merely "who has the horde tonight"?
The game didn't get "better" or "deeper" or "more realistic", it just got different.
This game was at its very best about a year after the beta. The additions since then have slowly degraded the fun factor and slowly increased the drudgery/boredom factor.
IMO, of course.
Of course, during those times that you can find a good air-to-air fight there is nothing else that even begins to come close to the satisfaction and enjoyment of AH gaming.