I too believe there are many gaming cultures within this sandbox of ours. For example finnish Lentolaivue 34 (back in the days when there were more of us active on ah front) used to fly "war missions". We wanted this sense of history added to the game. We took off in a formations of g-2's or g-6's and worked the formation flying and team work. Our main goal was to survive. We had our own scoring system and loosing a life ment it was reseted (the competition was within the ranks of the squadron while game itself was just a platform). It became a principle that every man comes home and nobody is left behind (in a true winter war spirit). Years of flying following these principles got me accustomed to the type of flying that one could call careful, cowardly or an easy picker. The goal was to fly disciplined and avoid risks. Then of course we blew some steam in the DA.
Nowadays things are different of course. I drink more while flying, seek stupid furballs etc. and most of the time find myself alone agains great number of enemies. A situation one can easily avoid with careful planning. But still, I do understand that some ppl do not want to engage in a furballs in Main Arena (DA central island gives perfect opportunity for this) and that they seek the sense of history, perhaps (like we used to) try to get their planes home with or without kills.
So I say the option E is perhaps the closest answer in this query.
