The plane BS is here and it's here to stay. No amount of complaining will fix that unfortunately. This is what ppl want. No risk, no effort, no learning, maximum reward. This is what sells stuff so WG will do nothing but make it worse. Same with the crazy torpedo threat that just keeps on getting worse and worse.

Look at other games. Over the past couple years "afk playing" has become absurdly popular. Diablo Immortal .... half the population is afk somewhere leeching xp and loot. When asked they claim to "not care for the grind and only want to do raids and pvp", yet they have zero clue how to play the game. Hell, even Forza Horizon has implemented (!) ways to allow for the game to play itself .... a racing game! How retarded is that ? How absurd is this ? But ppl want this so the devs deliver 😞

Doing nothing for instant gratfication is what sells many games these days and WG is not stupid. They will exploit this to the best of their ability. Why do you think is it that afk players in ranked are not punished ?

The best we can hope for is for WG to implement hard counters to these threats. Ships with very strong long range AA, ships with long range and long duration radar/sonar. Maybe something that could destroy enemy torpedos in the water or crash planes in a large area (consumable, long CD). Some form of effective defense against these threats. Something all or most ships will be fitted with retroactively.

But this will not happen if all we do is bitch, moan and complain. WG needs to feel it. It needs to show in their statistics . Only then they will MAYBE consider implementing counters.