I agree that AI should be improved and particularly the FM available to the AI (instant full rudder or ailerons should be eliminated and the max roll speed and other performance parameters should be the same as for the player plane including overheating etc.)

It also needs to get smarter in terms of when to break a fight or a pursuit and when to continue. While in old IL2 they stuck to one's tail forever this is fortunately no longer the case and they break off smarter than in the previous game. However, they lack bite considerably. After a few minutes they just form up and fly home and you can just shoot them down without reaction from them.

Also we need to have the command "cover this flight" (including the task in fmb) better implemented as usually the fighter cover attacks the fighters and drops with them to the deck while actually they should just deter the enemy from attacking the bombers.

But otherwise I think there are also some already good features implemented in the AI. I just had a rolling scissor fight with an AI and it did it quite smartly. So there is hope