AA vehicle and reward system in general

Actually, the more I play jets, the more I understand the developers' mentality.

Why is it that after so many updates and balance changes, they still make no effort to force players to leave the HQ zone?!

Because the developers' goal isn't to reward skilled players who spend hours playing jets and learning how to navigate the chaos of simply knowing who's locking onto them and how to avoid being locked onto again as soon as they launch flares, but rather to reward players with half a brain who can spend an entire match in the base locking onto aircraft with an insane range, even though the maps are small.

At this stage, jets are useless.

If you lock onto an aircraft, it releases its flares, and so in just that short period, you've already been locked onto 26 times, you've already released your own flares, and so a flight boils down to nothing but that.

Taking off while already locked onto. Spotting a target on the ground or in the air. Reaching the lock, but even then it's just aerial zigzagging and having to turn back.

And that perfectly sums up the entire game system!

Unlocking dozens of things in every match without doing anything isn't even rewarding.

Progressing through the battle pass isn't even fun. There's no effort required, and at the end of the match, you just get milestones. The challenges? There are no challenges; you just play "normally," and the challenges unlock automatically. The levels/ranks? No merit whatsoever. It levels up at lightning speed, with lots of noise and explosions, so the half-witted can be happy.

Matchmaking? You can be a new player and play utter garbage from start to finish, no problem, you're still in lobbies with level 400+ players who spend the entire game trying to make up for your mistakes.

Just like in our society, it's a race to the bottom, again and again. Even if it means dragging the best and/or veteran players (I don't consider myself in the first category, but definitely in the second) down with them.