CT will cater to boxed game players, for coop and the like. It'll cater to players who want historical and more realistic gameplay, which is not possible in the MA, nor in any arena we have now. AvA is just bootstrap solution for what CT is supposed to be, I guess. I've never tried it myself because I know it's bound to the same limitations as the previous historical arena used to be.
One example: You'll never have raids and engagements the size that CT is supposed to bring in the MA.. Never. They happen in scenarios, but CT will be those scenarios except (+-) daily and with a bit of luck on a larger scale.. I don't know if scenarios are 1:1 scale in terms of combatants.
Another example: No one is going to fly boring sorties as a gunner in a bomber in the middle of the night... But AI will do it, and that's all the gun fodder that people lick their chops over. Same thing with chasing down jets on rtb.. No one will do that, but AI will provide it.
I could go on
It won't be the holy grail, but it will be a huge relief for the MA, for the reasons I gave and probably a bunch HTC thought of themselves.
