Hey everyone's experiences are different. I will say that your claim that "games where there was no counter play to a cv is as rare as a detonation" either tells me you've not been paying very close attention, truly have only played against a large number of garbage cv players or maybe lower tiers where the planes don't hurt so damn bad. The rest of us with the decent cv players are getting fucking mauled in ships with Defensive AA popped and dodging for our lives. The counter play isn't really there. There's a reason that the truly good players are pretty unanimously against the current version of cvs. In the right hands it is broken. Nothing subjective about that.