If you go read the IL2 boards, or any board of any upcomming game for that matter, you will see flock mentality in action.
These people are sheep, and they believe that these new producers just out of the woodworks are somehow going to bring them something that they have for some reason firmly convinced themselves is the perfect game/simulation.
Got news for ya: There is no such thing, you can keep looking, you can keep lying to yourself, you can keep accepting what you've been fed, but in the end it all comes down to one thing: HiTech, Pyro and company have been around since '93/'94 producing a quality product. What makes you think these, as of yet, unproven programmers/developers are somehow so much better?
I know who the real sucker is, and his name begins with a p, and ends with a 109.
-SW