First one must understand that an exploit can be either positive or negative.
Exploitation is, last I checked, the act of making use of a situation to gain an unfair advantage for oneself.
Second, one must understand that every individual in this game has the ability to flight up.
This is actually not a part of the real argument - this is a red herring. It's cleverly disguised though, so I give you credit for that.
It is an individuals choice on how they play this game with in the confines of the rules.
There was a certain community event that I hosted years ago where the intentions of my ruleset were very clear. The event ended up turning into people trying to play the rulebook rather than play the game. Accusations of racism, xenophobia, and all sorts of things outside the game were thrown about by people looking to find loopholes in the rules to avoid getting their butts handed to them in the game. My point is that there are often ways that you can 'play the rules' to gain an unfair edge. Look at Mercedes' interesting steering mechanism in the Constructor's Cup and how that has forced the governing body to re-write the rules for next year.
Fair and unfair is kind of beating a dead horse.
World of Warplanes is kind of beating a dead horse at this point. Hopefully that will change soon. If it does, then fair and unfair is no longer beating a dead horse.
You can either look at the game as being unfair as a whole for the SOLO pilot or fair if the pilot takes advantage of all opportunities or exploits.
So you're saying that the game will only be fair if you learn all of the ways to exploit the game mechanics. Now it's not about playing the game, it's about beating the game so that you can then use that knowledge to clobber other people. Anyone who has this attitude about World of Warplanes is not here for the right reasons.
The fact is that some planes are meta others are lacking.
The player has the option to fly as he chooses.
The fact is that the developers have a responsibility to their community to continuously evaluate the performance of aircraft and maintain a BoP just like we see in racing where fuel levels, car weights, etc are set to maintain a fair field.
The choices are : Solo, flight , tier, plane
There are some other choices (read exploits) that are available that I'm not going to go into here because not many people are aware of them and don't need to be made aware.
Would the game be " MORE FAIR " if Wargaming changed to single tier with a dual mode of Solo mode / flight mode. ?
In the context of the game as it is today, yes - there should only be 1 tier per battle. Flights should be forced to fly the same tier regardless of whether the battle is a 1 or 2 tier spread.
What if Wargaming re-balanced the teams to be Nationally oriented versus.
This wouldn't be in line at all with the 'World of' philosophy.