It was always going to be as soon as the Eurodeltas got added that everyone who didn’t get them would cry.
Rafale does not carry the second best Fox 3, let alone first. It falls behind in range/energy retention to R77-1 and AIM 120. You know, generally the more beneficial aspects for BVR, unless you’re telling me you’re deliberately engaging a Rafale in a dogfight. Or failing to defeat MICAs launched at you from range. I’m not overly good at this rubbish, and prefer to play for ground attack, and even I can avoid MICAs consistently. If Rafale came in with Meteor, or accurately modeled MICA (it is underperforming notably), then your claim might hold some water. But it don’t.
As someone who does play air to ground, the air to ground capacity of Rafale is middling at best, with the only real benefit being range. The payload weight is mediocre, and whilst the AASMs are good at striking tanks, they take a short age to arrive at the target and it’s quite plausible they’re either behind cover or already turned to shrapnel by either tanks, or Kh 38s from the myriad carriers of them. If you want an effective strike platform for any prolonged engagement like EC, Rafale is sorely lacking.
Yeah, you can’t pull 17gs at high speeds, short of throwing it into a flat spin*. This was tested in full real, without the aoa limiter, minimum fuel load, and no armament, in a multitude of maneuvers to give this claim the most chance of occurring. But you want to know what else pulls 17gs in a flat spin? Most everything if you do it properly. Though I would also note, most aicraft are overperforming in G limit, because that is Gaijin’s standard. A more notable exception being the Gripen, because people like you complained, even when they had the figures accurate.
As it stands, the aircraft is generally accurate to available documentation with some exceptions in order to match the envelopes they deem most critical for a faithful depiction of the platform. The EFT is plausibly slightly underperforming, as it should keep up close to Rafale (lagging slightly behind agility because of a few factors, but better retention on account of that), and we don’t have the Gripen equivalent to these two platforms.
*Having almost no fuel will break this, but that’s the case for virtually every aircraft. If you want to address that, you’re going to have to address every other platform having similarly exaggerated G overloads when at a minute or 2 fuel.
