How about this for enlightenment. If you can fly slower, the other guy will go out in front of you. So unless they can shoot out of their ass they quickly become a bullet sponge. Plus, the more AOA you can pull for a given airspeed the smaller your turn radius will be. This alows you to bring the nose (which, by the way, is the direction the weapons point) around more quickly to get a shot. So it seems that the ability to sustain high alpha in a fight is quite advantageous, especially fighting something that won't fly slow. Like an F-16. I would go to less airshows and read more about ACM if I were you.