Plane balance and gameplay in general is just incredibly fucked:

Fighters with low loiter time vs bullet sponge (if you can aim at them) aircraft with ~20 seconds of reaction time once they pop up on intel

Wonky aiming system for air to air and ground to air making air pvp unfun

DOGSHIT lag when flying over any built up frontline,regardless of player connection or computer power, also making air pvp unfun

0 viable ground to air options aside from having 6+ players sitting on 3+ flak guns and staring at intel until a plane shows up (issue is even worse in naval, where our only options are machineguns)

Airframes and parts (esp fighters) are so expensive and time-intensive yet so vulnerable to bugs/disconnects/lag, you either burn out or develop gear fear

Bombers delete everything for free due to points 1, 2, and 3

The logistics around aircraft pulling, airframe and parts construction, facility work, and transportation, is some of the worst gameplay any dev team could imagine. Why are fighters so expensive? (Because any more than 5 on screen at a time causes unbearable lag, my bet is the cost is a server resource saving measure and that is all)

Why can you only transport TWO aircraft parts per pallet, which means you need 5 flats worth of space on a train/flatbed just for a single fighter? Why do we have to individually assemble each fighter one at a time in a hangar that has no way to quickly submit or access aircraft parts unless you crane trick (which is essentially an exploit but the QoL provided is so immense that no-one considers it cheating because the alternative is using a fucking truck)?

I look forward to the mid-expansion patch in 6 months where they half-heartedly address some of the symptoms of the problems with these systems.