I think BoF would have been a better starting point to progress forward from. What I don't like is the MIG game being created on a divergent path with a dead-end map-and we all know what happened with PF.
All of us here will probably buy any air sim made by Maddox and those with less knowledge don't know the difference between the BOB and BOF anyway. People will buy a game with aircraft besides P-51's, Spitfires etc. just look at Il2! This used to be the attitude in the plastic model industry-to make only well known models, but look at that industry now.
If Oleg REALLY wanted to make a splash he should have made "the Med" product, now that would have been really something.