One thing, though. You mentioned that you like detailed knobs and switches. While the knobs and switches in IL-2 are certainly detailed, they are not clickable. Just making sure that "clickable" isn't what you meant by "detailed."
CoD does have clickable cockpits,]
To be fair, CloD has partially clickable cockpits, a unfinished feature, like the rest of the game.
The game is good, but require much comprise to don't see their bugs, fails, bad design choices.. despite TF efforts. Is not for all players.