I don't see why. All sides horde, all sides have small defensive forces, and all defensive forces get tired of dieing to the horde so I would think the players rotate in and out of that defensive group pretty quickly spreading the numbers out.
The point is, it's still not a fight. See vNUKS film posted in that other thread. Yes there was gun fire, planes in the air, and one guy got shot down, but it still wasn't a fight.
Goes back to the Quality vs Quantity, Quality pilots enjoy the odds against them knowing it balances itself out, fact any decent pilot can take on 2-3 now a days and come out. However there's a higher trend of "Quantity" to offset the Quality, there's the main reason for the hordes. Its just gotten so bad to the point where Quantity relies on smashing an entire base dead so nobody can up. Nothing against those specific bishops that run missions like this, but in all honesty its brought the game to a pretty low period.
Only once I seen a mission where buffs were escorted and the target didn't matter, and people advertised on 200, thus scrambling fighters to intercept and nice furball brewed out of it.
Don't even see any classic fighter sweeps anymore, its all about loading up 30 planes to the max and lawn darting into hangers to drop a base.
However in the long run its just going to dwindle down, Quality will grow less and less, where Quantity will continue to grow, hopefully the game play doesn't change to much in the future to offset this.