Beating a dead horse

[Chivas]

"This is all spilt milk, we are where we are etc. But really, I think Oleg should sometimes get less obsessed with state-of-the-art physics models, and see the potential of other areas of his sims, such as maps, textures, ground objects, skins etc. etc. There is much more "stretch" in these than he perhaps thinks. His basic work is so good, he could do a lot more with it than he perhaps thinks."

Its very easy to improve the work of others and not have the many constraints the original developer had to work under at the time. It would be easy for the developer to rework and tweak the IL-2 engine and made a few people happy. I would guess the majority of combat flights simmers/modders are happy he didn't take the easy way out, so we could have a next generation sim that can be improved over the next 10-15 years.