Lots of games do that, unfortunately. I think if I had played through the campaign and experienced that ending first-hand, I would have been like "fuck, not again." NOTE: I still have not played MW2. I will eventually play it for Podacity or something, but as of now, I'm digging through the story purely from text.

As for no Mile High Club, that sucks. Then again, would you want to do something like that knowing you're not going for Makorov? That would probably bug me.