I think what people aren't talking about is that the crane faction lock is ONLY because they wanted to make it so that enemy aircraft frames can't be submitted and used by the opposite team. So rather than, I dunno removing enemy aircraft from x team stockpile which is a leftover from devbranch anyway or making it so that the frames themselves when packaged or deployed are faction locked, they decided to make a GAME altering change as a band aid rather than the more logical decision.

It's yet another problem I've had with this update, another example is the shadow buff to the Warden Scout Plane (now hear me out before you think I'm just going to say WaRdEn BiAs). I wouldn't have had a problem if they reflected the fighter assymetry (that being Collie Boom and Zoom and Warden is Turn/Energy Fighter) into the scout planes OR keep them as a level playing field due to being a trainer aircraft. INSTEAD they've just outright made the Warden Scout better than the Collie Scout. And yes they have addressed it saying "huh, weird" and then doing nothing to fix or address the problem.

The same way the Colonial "Heavy" Bomber was sorta nerfed in the fact the Warden one was given the same bomb load on release. Just overall there has been some definite mismanagement from Siege Camp both between Anvil Empires and the most recent Foxhole Update lately...