I know this sounds terrible but straffing has to be a real blast.
Heard more less exactly that from a WWII P51 pilot- his favorite target were trains because you got the big "kaboom" of steam when you got to the engine.
But he also said that on the long flight back to base you though about the guys on the train and you didn't feel so good.
He ferried some fighters back to the US in 1945 and never flew an airplane again.
“””””I know this sounds terrible but straffing has to be a real blast.”””””
Talk to helicopter door gunners during Vietnam, I’ve never met one or heard of one who didn’t like it (not strafing but lot’s of auto fire from high up).