They'll be back. Anyone who loves the competitiveness of WW2 combat will be back. AH is currently the only WW2 online combat with massive persistent arena, and player score rankings, very unique. That's the key ingredients. War Thunder is not massive persistent. Although I do love the graphics and flight models, there is very little in competitiveness.
I stopped messing with world of Planes / now called War Thunder, after Alpha testing , then closed Beta testing, and what you have posted above that is bolded and underlined.....
I guess I might should check their flight model out if they figured out how to fix the issues back then...
25+ years of online gaming and modem to modem 1 vs 1 playing before that...... we old farts finally get burnt completely out, on trying to keep up with the game one loves most, and testing any thing that might be a competitor game, to compare them, over all these years....
I have yet to find anything close to AH though, in flight model comparison, except for AW and WB, in which , the creator/owner worked for AW and created WB before creating AH.....
you could say I am a bit biased probably, heh
TC