The two most commonly flown aircraft in the MA are the P-51 (a boom and zoomer to be sure) and various marks of Spitfires, which is to say, turny birds
Other turny-birds which enjoy great popularity include N1Ks, Brews, and Hurris. Now we both know that people will naturally gravitate to planes that are easy for them to be effective in. If turning ability is not advantageous, how do turny birds manage to stay so popular, especially with newer pilots who need all the help they can get?
Actually pickers fly the gamut of planes. Especially common is turny-birds following fast friendly planes about to make an easy kill of fast but poor-turning planes the friendlies chase down. Well, damn them I say, damn them for not realizing the rule of the MA is when five friendly pilots meet five enemy pilots they should all square off into five individual duels. Wait...that's not a rule in the MA at all, and when I suggested it be made one, literally no one voted in favor of it. 
So the performance of the KI is better as a fighter, but the P-51 is easier to fly as a fighter? Dear Ink, please choose one. The cognitive dissonance is grating.
You commend him for dying to you instead of extending when you kill him in plane with all the advantages in a dogfight? You giving, noble soul you. I also suggested that "no running" be made a rule, and that was voted down by the community as well. Yet half the community claims about running constantly...it's a bit schizophrenic. *Shrug*
This is the sort of advice you could have used when you were telling me once, with absolutely conviction, that a P-51 pulling 6gs at 300mph would out-turn other planes pulling 6gs at 300mph. A third party had to inform you that unfortunately this violated the laws of physics. But how certain you were of your rightness!
As certain as you seem now that flying an "energy fighter" is far and away easier than flying an "angles" fighter, in spite of the popularity of flying "angles" fighters in the MA. I guess those all those guys in Spits, N1Ks, and Brews found P-51s too easy and switched for the challenge of it, not because it helped them get kills in any way..
So you DO fly a plane that is fairly strong (if under-rated by most) to its strengths (not that there is anything wrong with that)? Good, glad we could establish that. Now, my own statistics for last tour indicate that my k/d ratio in the P-51D, the quintessential boom and zoomer, is almost exactly the same as my k/d ratio in the Fm2, the quintessential turny-bird. Same pilot, same objective (kill some bad guys), completely opposite ends of the performance spectrum, yet the same essential results. How is this possible, if the P-51D is massively easier to get kills in? You'll have to take my word on it that I didn't deliberately pork my P-51D results in order to make a point in a debate which I didn't know I was going to be in. 
ok.....
I will continue this with you just because you are alright...and not normally an idiot.
im just gonna respond to the pertinent parts
A...Spits are BOTH TnBers and BnZers.
B....the N1k has massive cannons and LOTS of them...(nope they wont be popular)
C....Hurri2C massive fire power coupled with GREAT turning ability make it a formidable plane....that most can just fly away from....(on the Hurri2C if you know me...you know that was my plane for many years long before the KI..I still have many more kills in the Hurri2 then I have in the Ki)
D.....EDIT....
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I wonder how many times I have been called a cheater....
to say 100 times is a very conservative number....I would say 100's of times....I have gotten THOUSANDS of complements on how I fight....but yet I have died over 14,000 times.....
why is that?
my hit % at best is around 6 and normal is 4-5%
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wait wait wait......
I just got a thought.....
maybe we are not reading what each others is saying...
this is my stance/believe/thoughts on BnZ vs TnB
it is "easier" to
stay alive in the BnZ role....but no I don't believe it is inherently "easier" to get kills in the BnZ roll....
in the right plane I would say it is easier to "kill" in the TnB roll.
to get Killz in the BnZ roll you must have good Aim...good timing....good SA
to get killz in the TnB roll you dont need good AIM (I am a perfect example)
to stay "alive" in the BnZ roll you must stay fast....hit fast.....don't commit....
but NONE of this matters....
because all you have to do is fly around a bunch of green guys and fly a early war plane and think you are awesome because you fly the P40
or you can fly around in a 190(insert other top speed demon) at top speed picking ones already engaged and think you are awesome because you stay "alive"
or you can fight All comers.....All fights(no matter what you are flying) and be known as a fighter.
what are you?