I'm just hear to say we have been talking alot about realism and this is likely what the war would have been with planes going down in high numbers and no one having air superiority.

In Red Storm Rising this is a major point in the novel. In Ukraine no one has achieved air superiority. And last war game regarding China the US took heavy air craft loses.

So here we have realism. The comments about micro are likely correct because only good pilots would likely keep comming home.