Nope, he literally does have a button on his palm to open the visor. The knob on his head just allows him finer control over how it opens. 

Besides which, we’ve been seeing punching-kicking stylized martial arts choreography from both men and women for a long time. The visual language of movie badassery evolves over time.

Your right no country or group has fealded weapons in one theater of warfare and not another. The Mustang was so useful at Guadalcanal, Midway, and Coral Sea. Also lets not forget the contobutions of the Wildcats and Hellcats over Eurpope.

Which is, for me, TFA didn’t work. It wasn’t lived in. There was no culture, no unique alien species that we were given a chance to know beyond a passing costume in a plot set-piece. You can piece together so much of Tattooine from the older films, even from some of the prequels, but especially from ANH. Tell me about…

But perhaps it’s not really needed given how the super soldier serum works?

No I’ve been here a while. I remember them doing basically the same hack job attacks on the F-22.