Before I start, I want to clarify that I’m basing my opinion on being an avid Focke-Wulf enjoyer, having flown nearly every variant (I fly exclusively Air Simulator EC) and my opinion is mainly constructed from that experience as well as the official War Thunder Wiki.
Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to say that for me personally, no matter what the player performance is, it makes absolutely no sense to have the Fw190 D-9 and the Ta152 H-1 at the same BR when the latter is better in almost every aspect imaginable from performance to armament. You could make an argument about the roll rate and low altitude vs high altitude performance, but that doesn’t make too much sense as if you’re flying the 190, any variant, at the end of the day you’ll be doing boom and zoom and strict energy fighting so low altitude is more of a situational advantage and, given that nature of the aircraft, the Ta152 is overall superior. Moreover, what mainly bothers me is that I don’t have an urge to pick the D-9 because I know that I will knowingly enter the fight in a worse airframe just because I want to fly it… It’s like picking an older car because it has an emotional value, while the new shiny one sits next to it being better in every way except the soul.
To conclude, I believe that the D-9 should sit at the very least at 5.3 (where the F4U-4 sits which is also better than it in almost every metric) or even at 5.0 where the comparable P-51D-5/D10/D20, the Typhoon, G-14 Bf 109 and various Spitfires already sit. Either would do, and moving it to 5.3 would honestly be enough for me as it would still separate it from the Ta152 which is the main thing I’m advocating for, to give it a reason to be flown other than sentimental value. Additionally, just changing the sim BR won’t affect the point and click fandom (AB/RB) and could be packaged together with other aircraft BR changes specific to SB to improve the game balance and make more sense than a single aircraft constant change in the files.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this and if you have any other similar examples please share them, I’m interested to hear which other aircraft could be reinvigorated with a slight BR shift. Thank you for reading and wish you all happy flying!