You should try it before you put your foot so deep in your mouth...
I think he's still under some spell cast by that teenage girl up at the Oracle.
The no-enemy-icons and short-range-friendly-icons - which I once implacably opposed - have turned out to produce much more historical player behavior. It's now easy to get bounced, so you have to spend more time watching for that, gyrating your plane around from time to time to throw off an attacker you haven't yet spotted. Planes with better camoflage are more difficult to see if they're below you. You can lose sight of someone you're fighting and not easily pick it up in the corner of your eye by the flash of his red icon. Voice input from your friends, and finding someone to fly with, take on new importance (granted that these are more related to WWII than WWI).
As many predicted, and as many continue to point out, it isn't for everyone. But if you haven't yet tried it, you really should see what it's like.
- oldman