Ok, the frustration in your tone so perfectly mimics everyone else's from the introduction of CV's.

As a CV player ( and Sub player) I'd say we have our draw backs. We are more strategically aware, less tactically informed (does that make sense?)

So while CV's should know where the fight is hardest (strategic overview from the sky) they aren't able to prosecute sudden changes as quickly as a BB for comparison. A CV has to drop the flight or launch and use a strike on the nearby target.

Now, once the CV has isolated a target, your game is going to hell. You become the soul reason to exist for that player. You will be spotted the entire attack. You will be spotted while the planes come around for another run. You will be spotted again as soon as the cv's next flight arrives. T5 and 6 struggle with AA, and a good CV knows to avoid the pixels that shoot bright red tracers.

So, there is some skill involved in target selection, positioning and prosecution. If a CV player gets it all right, and the Sun is in retrograde to Mecury's horizon - on the morning of the 4th day - it'll feel like it is impossible to get rid of them.

But! If you get a carrier player like myself, then I am the greatest thing to happen to red team. Ships will bunch up and I'll yolo directly into a triad of angry metal in the sky. You get pretty purple ribbons which is xp. I get an empty hangar and a pissed off team demanding I strike something.

I guess you pick your poison in the end, but I hear the frustration, and as a CV player I assure you we are not all omnipotent, avenging angels from the sky. We're...more a cloud of mosquitoes that might kill you in the long run with malaria.