Hmm a coupla thoughts re all the fluffing accusations -
1.) if all this buff running is so laughably easy that any halfwit in a single buff can stop all fighter ops at any field, why don't the superior-skilled fluffwhiners simply stop wasting their time whining and clamber into a fluff to kill all the enemy's Bomber Hangars first? - it's so easy blah blah blah use mouse blah blah blah get dinner blah blah blah take shower blah blah. - Hey presto! No irritating buffs knocking out your nice fighter hangars.
2.) Awwww the fighter hangars are down!

D'oh! Resupply them?!? Hey-presto NEW Hangars!

(don't forget - this counts as a fluff mission and therefore you can do it with a mouse - no need to strain your stick or your brain, and you can take a shower & read the newspaper, get coffee at the same time).
The game has fighters & bombers, CVs & GVs. You'll have to live with it because, guess what? Some people like them. And IMO it'd a much poorer game without them all. We'd only have one map per TOD for starters...
Yes buffs are way too accurate thus hopelessly unrealistic - but that's so that they can be of some use in the MA - where all the targets they attempt to bomb are hopelessly unrealistic too: - I mean Ack that gets repaired in 15 mins? Airfields full of unlimited aircraft and vehicles? Carpet bombing the runway does nothing? Come come some mishtake shurely? No aircraft factories? No merchant shipping? No bridges... no real cities, no ground troops etc etc etc...).
Besides you always have to consider that should 100% realism be imposed on this game, none of us could play it anymore - because we have all been killed.
As the current strat set up stands, take away precision bombing then buffs are of no use other than providing fluffwhiners a free meal, the maps are static and there's not much point in furballs either: be honest - when was the last time you saw a gaggle of fighter pukes capture a field by straffing alone (in between furballs) in under 3 hours - besides, isn't the c47 counted as a fluff? - ewww. Actually - when was the last time you saw a gaggle of fighter pukes capture a field, period?
Anyone who wants the game with no strat, no buffs, no real point other than air combat is in the wrong arena - you should be in the H-2-H arenas: I think wb may still cater for this in it's free air combat arena, too.