Speaking as a Ground Attacker in a fighter bomber, I have graphics set to full detail and as any Rook (the ones I tend to work with) can tell you, I spot GV's easily from long distance.
The reason being, because I have come to know what to look for when I am hunting them and this includes the ones working their way thru the tree's. It isn't exploiting a flaw or a bug, you will just find that those of us who concentrate on attacking Gv's in a personal manner, with a single bomb or salvoed rockets, learn to look for the little details, that tell us where you are as we approach. Half the time I am on an approach run, before I ever see an Icon and at times, if Flaks are present, I am dropping from outside Icon range aiming to drop long, to make up for an altered approach and to keep my tail feathers from being singed.
I would speculate, that most if not all the players who use fighter bombers to hunt GV's (outside of base defense) don't use any shortcuts, to accomplish this.
On the topic at hand, I am glad the oversight is being fixed and will most likely be found tooling around in a panzer more often.
Thank You Hitech