Lasz, just for sake of curiosity, take a b17 full of bombs and fuel, and climb to 20k.
Looooong climb.
Someone think it's suitable to defend a country hopping in a vulched field, other prefer a GV, other want to use the mid alt fighters to cut the attack flow, finally someone want to spend lot of time to gain a safe alt and try to disable the attack by hitting the attack's origin field.
The same, with due differences, apply when you are in offensive.
It's just the way different people like to play in different ways, all of us are paying customers, and want to have fun.
as to the playability, well, the bombers guns are strong, indeed, but you can still attack and down a bomber untouched, if you use the right tactic, more easyly, if you have a countrymate for a coordinated attack.
The laserguided bombs fact is true, but the blast range is ridiculous compared to most of the targets in fields or factories.
When an old, unexploded US bomb is found here in Italy (yes, there are still some stuck underground), they use to evacuate a 4-5 square Km area (500 lbs bombs in majority), for people safety, in case the baby decide to wake up before deactivation.
with 100 Kg (little more than 200 lbs) of TNT, mafia cut in half an highway to kill a judge some year ago, can you imagine 500 (or, better 400, the rest must be iron) of HE exploding in a runway, or near a can made hangar? or even a small building?
less precision, more blast (and maybe one shot salvo)
nice slogan
p.s.
And I sometime fly buffs, so I must be a damn dweeb, like 90% of ppl, but this is well know.
Real men dont fly buffs!
