That's fine, nobody said it wasn't a complex task, but whats the reason for not implementing something in-between instead of just taking it away outright? The J-17 has had the ability to modify countermeasures in the special menu from day one yet how many years has the F-16 been out for now..?
It's not a matter of being patient, (Even though you've literally had a decade to sort things like this out) It's a matter of paying a lot of money for a product and having things taken away from it rather than added, Important things if anybody has ever been on a PVP server... Would it have been that difficult to add in an interim solution on top of the effort and time spent in making the CMS .lua require an IC check?