First I would like to point out that in AW the WWI and Korea arena's were the ugly step sister to the main thrust which was WWII, after IEN took over WB it was the same for DoA, the lack of interest by the producers of those games led to the small numbers which played those games.
The plane comparison is just silly on the face of it, there were NO CANNONS so the HO is alot less effective, not to mention much easier to avoid in those kites, I played all of those sims and for my money when Dale and company were running the show DoA was BY FAR the best WWI game/sim I had played.
I think it would add some "new" to HTC to bring back a WWI arena and give it as much attention as it requires to make it fun, I find the existing MA to be a boreing litinany of cannon birds and I would drop my subscribtion were it not for FSO and some other senario's which have been done by some pretty dedecated folks. If HTC were to add an WWI arena, I suspect you find alot of "old timers" in there most of the time, plus when the word got out I suspect it would draw alot of the WWI community now scrabbling to fine SOME venue and so increase income for what I suspect (because they have the past knowledge) be a fairly low out lay (as compaired to a new JET arena).
I agree that most of the naysayers have an "agenda" which has nothing to do with WWI, but as a former member of the "original" PigStompers I say Squeeeeeeeeeee let the fun begin
