Hehe...
Well... Nah it's only an issue to people until they try and come up with a work-around.
I've completely forgot what HT's reasoning was now... but there was one, and it sounded good at the time.
Something to do with tracking damaged (but still flyable) planes well past the time you've upped for your 3rd sortie. It was worse than that though - there was some sort of logical breakdown; some factor that made it impossible to do. I forget what it was... but it's probably the reason ya don't hear too much about the issue anymore.
What is WBs doing differently now?
I do side with ya though... if two planes HO (for eg.) and die, they both should get credit (or none).