You talk about immersion and how this feature kills it. Yet I bet you zoom in all the time to locate targets. How is that any different? I don't know a single pilot that takes binoculars with him on a sortie. So if you want immersion, the ability to turn off in server, then that's fine. But also turn off the zoom feature as well.
I love this feature. I actually feel like I can do things. I'm not spending, what seems like forever finding targets. I get that this feature isn't for everyone. And that's fine. But this feature is neither immersion killing, especially if you zoom in, nor is it a cheat. Now if you want to say that the implementation of it right now isn't good, i.e. Models are too big or can be seen from too far a distance, that would be great. That's info the devs need to balance the feature. But to say it's crap and needs to be taken out completely is an awful idea.
Having said that, I haven't tried the new version of this feature yet so I can't comment on the modeling being too big. The last version was fabulous, it helped a great deal. But even if that's the case I'm confident that the devs will take the problem and scale it down. This is a beta and that what this is for. To experiment with features and see what the limits or problems are if they tweak it. This is way better than them tweaking it in the final version and have to scramble to fix it.