The power of IEWS (combined ECM+ESM) on a really powerful air frame kinda makes 95% of other planes obsolete and completely tips the scales in favor of a team that has one with at least a decent pilot.

It dominates coop warfare. You can dance in the middle of an enemy team with IEWS running and they will struggly to deal with even PvE targets, let alone PvP targets. And your airframe will allow you to dodge most of their attacks very easily.

How in the world is this supposed to be balanced against teams flying normal planes without making IEWS useless or extremely limited in the number of uses (thus removing the point of this plane) - I do not know...