It's quite natural to get defensive when 'your' game is compared to another product.
However, AH is a lot of things that WWIIOL isn't and vice versa. You see, if you want to occationally drive a Panzer, fight as a Landser, be supply truck driver, captain a sub, fly a dive bomber, provide aircover for large offensives, well then WWIIOL problably is the best single alternative out there (soon out there

).
If you want to dogfight, or just try a lot of different planes , then AH and WB is kings, no doubt, at least for the forseeable future.
There's really no valid comparison between AH and WWIIOL, as AH is a niche(sp?) product, while WWIIOL is aimed for the mass market, with it's good and bads.
You say that the community in WWIIOL will be nasty, well you find amazinhunks everywhere. There's always the option not to listen to the BS, and I find that there's a good number of nice people in the WWIIOL community as well, as there is in the AH community.
IMO it's silly to get so attached to a game that you defend it regardless. I know it's easy to get there, but honestly, if WWIIOL sucks, or if anything better and more promising comes along, I will not be the Don Quixote of WWIIOL...