Yes. You are quibbling about what constitutes improvement by focusing on your preferences for changes.
Not quibbling, just questing your statement. I focused on areas of the game that as a factual review will show, no game improvements have taken place for 20 years. I'm not questing the fact that HTC has a great air to air combat model, Air to ground attack not so much, I don't care how many tons of bombs you drop on any of the standing bridges around a town, you can't inflect damage, that's not a great model of air to ground attack. Troops just run to their death, no AI troops to seek cover and maneuver like Combat infantry would. If you have factual evidence of game improvements, not software fixes, bug fixes or programming fixes please educate me. I think a lot of new players and even some returning players, download and take a look and say, nothing new here, looks and plays a lot like Air Warrior did and like AH did 20 years ago.
I don't think it's the learning curve, heck, take a look at DCS, its numbers are growing and it has a much steeper learning curve. The 113th Lucky Strikes has been here for 20 years and does as much as we can to try to attract and keep new players and get them into the fold, trained up and flying, We are asked by them if we have a squad presents on DCS or Arma3, after just a few weeks, they find the AH game stale and don't stick around very long after that. This series of post is about Discord Server and using social media to attract and educate new players about AH, well, there has been a FaceBook group since 2008, now called Aces High III, well, there you go OP, wish granted.