Race, your absolutely correct. the only problem, is crybaby's.. if you allow bombing strat to in ANY way interfear with mindless furballing.. it wont happen, in the past strat WAS more important, in fact lots of stuff was different, porking fuel at a base, lowered the max fuel there to 25%.. of course the furballers FLIPPED OUT.. and that was removed, now porking fuel means nothing, BOMB CRATERS.. used to damage landing gear if you drove through them at speed, furballers got that removed as well.. All of these things interfere too much with the mindless ritual of taking off with autotakeoff, hitting utoclimb to 8k, then swirling to your death in the middle of a bunch of other people doing the exact same thing for the sake of doing it.
cmon, you cant expect people to actually be doing things.. for a reason.

I agree, and have seen just this change swing towards the fuballing community.
Look at what the complaint is now, "bombers" having too many guns, "lazer" accuracy, they have too many bombs, bombers are too accurate, etc. etc. What it boils down too is they are not the easy fast kill they are looking for, they actually die for a change, and then complain.
I think it has alot to do with the ones that know how to Game the Game for score, and they dont want that to change because they will actually have to earn it.