Sims are more demanding and VERY different from games like Crysis because games like Crysis have very primitive damage modeling, for instance, as compared to the calculations required to register a hit to hundreds of specific components in a bomber among many other things you don't see but emulate reality. That stuff doesn't happen for free.
You are right in the sense that unfortunately CoD should still be able to perform a lot of those visual effects you like and better utilize the resources available.
The simple fact is 1C simply doesn't have a fraction of the budget for this flight sim that a game like Crysis has and it shows by how long it has taken to get to this point and how disturbingly unoptimized it currently is) so even when the technical aspects get fixed, I doubt we'll see much imagination and creativity in the implementation (interface, mission cohesiveness, etc.).
The good news is there is a very creative community out there that will offer these things better than 1C can ever hope to so it depends on whether you bought CoD as a flashy but relatively short-lived game or as a simulator with a great deal of potential and longevity.
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