For me, it is more about avoiding another waste of developement efforts a la the B29.
The ludicrously high perk price and lack of viable strategic targets has doomed her from seeing any use in the late war arena. Who in this game wants to waste 2-3 hours of doing practically nothing of value and avoiding all excitement? it's beyond me.
Give us a B-29 with a very limited bomb load and no perk price and I'm sure you'll see them flying around the skies of aces high in "gun-ship mode", à la Dantoo style. Flying into a full red sector, under 10K, manning the turrets and fending off fighters is a bloody good rush which trumps flying around doing jack all.
A perk ordnance system may well be the answer.