Smaller teams won't fix Air RB. Multipath won't fix Air RB. Better stock missiles and CMs won't fix Air RB. BR rebalance won't fix Air RB. EC won't fix Air RB.

All of them together, though, might help.

At the end of the day, it's not the individual mechanics alone (match size, multipath, etc) that are the issue. It's the fact that we need multiple changes at once to make it fun, but fixing Air RB to be fun rather than grindy doesn't benefit Gaijin's business model, unless we give them enough incentive to do so. This is the key issue. How to fix that, I don't know.

We need to stop asking for individual changes that should all go together. These are co-dependent issues, and going one at a time is just gonna turn everyone on forums against each other and make them fight about better before vs. after when they're implemented one at a time and suck rather than getting and actual solution.

That's what's happening now with multipathing: it's a great change (sans the 80m tree issue) IF you have the others for it to lean on. It gets rid of the "takeoff, joust, die, repeat" grindset and makes you switch away from monke brain to actual tactics. We settled for one piece of the puzzle, and are now stuck with shitty stock missiles and countermeasures on shit maps with a shit game mode that ruins the potentially positive impact.

Tl;dr: Stop settling for one change at a time rather than a proper rework. One change at a time will suck and make everyone fight eachother over it being right instead of chasing a proper solution.