What did they do to the Axis Loiter?

I’ve always thought the Stuka loiter was broken, over powered, brain dead ability that should have been removed in the first balance patch, but now it’s just absurd. I’ve played several matches with a few friends of mine, and we ran into multiple groups of Axis players whose whole game strategy was just spamming the Stuka loiter, and it was nightmarish. It will instant kill hellcats, take 90% health off Easy Eights, and suppress and chews up infantry within its circle, which seems to last a long time. And even if you get lucky enough to escape the circle of area denying death, they will chase you down well outside of it and do a second pass finishing off whatever managed to survive the first attack.

It used to be you could at least escape it sometimes.

During one match I had a captured flak 88 and a quad mounted half track, and the loiter killed both of them before the two planes could be shot down by my buddy’s quad mount.

What are the devs on? Do they want the game to die so they just don’t have to deal with it anymore?