I'm more bothered by the fact that you can bring your bullet-riddled, pilot-wounded 262 in with one engine dead and the other smoking, smack down on on the field so hard you lose both wings and the tail, skid to a halt ruining a few hundred feet of runway surface in the process, and still call it a "successful landing" and keep your perks just because the smoldering wreckage your maimed pilot was pried out of happened to be on pavement.
But then, it is a game.