I'm not married to any one style, Beetle.
This strat vs. Fur thing has taken on a life of its own, but people have to realize that there are folks who like to do both.
I am really looking forward to TOD, and enjoy the current events we participate in. I love a good organized raid better than anything in the game. But there are nights when I simply do not feel like getting involved in all the planning, that goes into a strategic raid.
Some nights, I prefer to just climb into a plane a lone wolf it out to the nearest furball.
If I had to choose one way of playing or the other, I would go for the full scale realism.
The way AH is laid out now, I don't see any problem the closer fields are causing. I've not see the fuel porking issue I had feared. Field captures seem harder to execute, which I like. If I need to up a heavy, I simply fall back a base or 2 so I can get enough Alt.
The things I want in AH, I do not think can be provided by any map maker. It requires a change of AH coding, I think.