Not sure why you guys are so hard on it. SP leveling thing is a pain but you'd ditch what is a pretty solid sim because of it? Can't do locally hosted co-op being a reason to ignore it (you can still do AI only fights online)? A couple of incomplete FMs?
In time, just like IL2, third party content will arrive to flesh out what is missing and the FM mistakes will be cleared up. It's like shooting your dog because you don't like how is groomer cut the hair.
That's patently ridiculous mondo.
Grinding is grinding period and I hate in vehemently.
Also, this isn't a typical Alpha where you pay 20 bux or so and deal with the bugs to final release. We paid close to $100 and when we first purchased it we couldn't even play it because it could only be played/updated when their servers were online.
All we had in the beginning were a few flyable aircraft, no guns and nothing really to do but look at scenery.
Now here we are in the home stretch and their telling us how to play the game. Maybe you're ok with being directed how to use your software but I'm most certainly not.
...and I don't want to wait for mods to rescue the game from oblivion.
I don't care if they sprinkle sugar on shit, I'm still not eating it.
Besides, why the h3ll would I pay this sum of money to fly with AI, that makes no sense whatsoever? I want to fly with my friends as that's what got me hooked in the first place, maybe you remember those days because you were certainly there too.