You guys make it sound like HTC can only work on one aspect at a time. FYI, while Pyro and either Nate or Super work on the planes, HiTech, Ronni and the Nate or Super are working on other things in the game, like strat, features, etc...
As far as planes go, if we don't get a Japanese naval Dive bomber, Japanese naval Torpedo bomber and an American naval Dive bomber, the special events that the CM's can host are very limited in the Pacific theater. Matter of fact I would say that it's going to take two releases of nothing but Pacific theater planes before we could host decent Pacific theater events.
I don't have an opinion on the MA, since that kind of fight is not my specialty.