As a (single account) subscriber who joined the ranks in 2001, shortly before EA pulled the plug on AW3, I can contribute the following worthless information...
1. The ENY "tower sitter" issue has been a bone of contention forever...my best guess is it made the Wishlist prior to 2010, and then numerous times thereafter.
2. While a ENY update with respect to individual aircraft (+GV's) is warranted, and long overdue, consider also that for quite some time (beginning with the subscriber attrition dating back to the advent of AH3)...there now exists a core group of long time subscribers, who have every iota & intrinsic value of their preferred rides ingrained into their every fiber of being. I'm speaking of the folks who've been here 20+ years and sit at their "battle stations" day in; day out...6, 8, 10, 12 + hrs @ day.
How do you factor that into the equation, vs the new player?
3. The one & only person capable of updating the revisions is retired.