Somehow, I just don't think the folks at HTC get up every morning and go to work with the goal that they're going to do their very best to create a new game (technically, AH2 is new game) that will eventually look bad, have an awful flight/damage model, not run well on anyone's PC and not be fun to play.
I don't think some of you understand just how complex an undertaking it is. Look at the all the other mmog flight games out there - You can count them on 2 fingers. One has few players and some, er... management challenges and the other is stagnent and unsupported.
AH2 is still beta and it will require an enormous, never-ending amount of work even after going live. It is just a huge undertaking for so few people and it must require the patience and dedication of saints to keep plugging away at it.
I think the HTC staff deserve the respect that any suggestions presented should be done in a civil manner with clear reasoning 'why' the suggestion is made. It then is up to them to accept and prioritize it for inclusion, or reject the idea. There may be reasons something can't be done or can't be done well.
With so few people, they certainly cannot respond to every suggestion on this board. Well, they could, but no work would ever get done.