Thoughts on the Brawler?

I personally really like it, but it has no reason to be rank 2. At the very least it should be rank 3, maybe even rank 4. There is just no practical reason balance wise to take any other ground attack plane/helicopter when not using nukes. The firepower on the Brawler outclasses any other plane several times, even more so when using guns/cannons (well, maybe only excluding the Darkreach).

Im not saying that other planes dont have uses, but Brawler is the jack of all trades ground attack wise, being moderately good at every scenario thrown at it. Sure, a Medusa can attack radar guided missile positions better, or the Darkreach is better at instantaneous destruction and/or AA saturation with bombs, but at the end of the day Brawler can do all of that.

Also, what are your thoughts on the 57mm cannon against air targets? Its ironic, but i think that it needs a very very slight buff. Right now proximity explosions do almost no damage even against Crickets. I understand that its comparably a small projectile and it should deal no damage when exploding in the proximity, but its weird that devs implemented this feature when a non-direct hit does basically nothing except look cool in the viewfinder.

P.S. This is the point of view when only thinking of pure usefulness rather than having fun. This is my opinion and in SP or when playing with friends the Brawler is tolerable, but any other time its just not fun to play against.