To me it seems the common misconception here is that if HTC is working on something other than filling in the WWII plane set it will never be done. From what I've seen of the operation they will continue to fill in the plane set and do things that may generate additional revenue for the company. Waffle's screen shots of the huge city are pretty cool and would be great models for London or Berlin that could be used for FSO ops. I'm all for additional rides of both eras. One of my favorite planes will probably never make it to the plane set, the HE-162.
Meanwhile, look back of the last 10 years and see how many planes have been added from the initial plane set. Yeah some of the graphics are dated but how many have been totally redone? I think it's a fantastic achievement that this game has stood up on it's own over the the last 10 years. 20+ if you include AirWarrior, and WarBirds. Yes HiTech did do a lot of work with AirWarrior, enough he was flying free for years on GEnie and had credits there when GEnie folded.
I guess the basic premise is no matter what HTC does some folks will continue to whine if what they want for themselves isn't happening right now.
SB