You want historical fixes but nerfs at the same time. Both are uncompatible with each other however
EFT would just be straight up buffed in some areas, and Rafale would be in a “lose some, gain some” situation, making Rafale as busted as it is right now, but in a slightly different manner, and EFT even more of a menace
Note that i’m not against a BR increase for both to give breathing room to lower BRs however.
Also if you want to do an “experiment” and be the “judge”, you better have a solid case, and opening it with an incorrect claim (stating you play both EFT and Rafale while it’s not the case, as DirectSupport recalled) isn’t exactly stellar.
Better radar (multibeam search, not limited to 90km)
RCS and IR signature reduction
Mica with reduced drag and not hard limited to 50km (increase of 60% on the theorical range, from 50 to 80)
Lower amount of AAMs, from 8 to 6 on F3R variant only
Lower acceleration at high supersonic speed (still the same at subsonic and low supersonic)
reduced G overload
And you now find yourself with a Rafale that moves slightly worse than before, but is basically the eye of Sauron itself carrying what could be considered the best AAM in game, although in lower quantity. As i said earlier : lose some, gain some
My best guess, maybe next BR Changes would introduce another decompression for air, I agree that Rafale itself already become a 14.3/14.7 material, some early 4th Gen that don’t have Fox 3 really need some fresh air so they don’t get powercrept easily when got uptier, I miss the F-14B spamming Sparrow that got powercrept by F-14A IRIAF lol.