I haven't played in a while... But what is this ENY problem? My Yak never had this problem. Nor did my D3A... Or that Spit 1 I flew every now and then.
Hmm... I got nothing against the more powerful late war birds. They're good, they're d*** good, and with a good stick some are nigh untouchable for a rookie like myself.
But you'd think that a bunch of grown men could just suck it up a bit and fly something a bit weaker. Your pony-D unavailable? Fly the B. Your LA-7 unavailable, fly the 5.
If you fly it cause it has special meaning to you, and it's unavailable, fly something else, You never know, some other plane might catch your eye. I never even knew what a Yak was until I decided to up it because I got tired of the F4U.