As the winner of the shinden event, or more importantly the insane person who spent 10+ hours playing the J7W3 pimped out to the max. yes the shinden is bad in WOWP.
slow, which means your cannot make its around the map, also cannot chase many things. the altitude is poor, which means you cannot chase many things. the plane is a bottom feeder you sit at low alt waiting for something to make a mistake and come to your ridiculous quad 30mm. that is the life of the Shinden, sucking dirt hoping for something to make a mistake.
the plane itself is not bad, the current state of the game just makes it sub optimal choice to win in.
now the j7w1, is trash. see spitfire 14. you literally have no counter to the spit 14. it can out turn J7 by 2 seconds, faster than J7, has a lower stall speed(so no fancy slow tricks) and is 80% wing hit box. that means you cant even win head on's in a plane with the second highest cumulative DMG at tier 8. also the guns on the j7 are very shot gunny accuracy is very poor, plus fast overheat. even when you get the jump on a more maneuverable plane, your ability to reliable kill is not very good.
the W3 has a easier time since it's A: better in every way B: the planes you fight are less maneuverable, which high shall. this means the W3 is on a much more even playing field when fighting pretty much everything but HFs or very fast MR or fighters. your main opponent is the yak 30, but since its hit box isn't 80% wing you can hit it and do dmg, WOW! balance! it also burns good and take massive amounts of crits. your not gonna out turn yak 30, but if you are aware of the yak you can fight yak 30 with some confidence. W3 still gets railed like by HF's and there is not much you can do against them.
the bomber menace applies to all J7's you get to look up at your doom with little hope of changing your fate. unless the bomber messes up quite a bit.
as i said i spent a good amount of time in the J7W3, i dont think of it as the dumpster fire, i once did. It can be a competent aircraft is the right hands, but it is still a painful and difficult plane to play and excel in. In my opinion its weaknesses i.e speed and alt for outweigh its strengths. oddly i don't really regret my time in the J7 during the event. i did learn a lot about the plane and how to excel in to, but the plane just feels like a constant struggle. which can be enjoyable at times, but it just feels like needless stress.
invest your time in better aircraft. like HF's