I said this last night, and I'll say it again:

Personally, I think that the fun about easter eggs is KNOWING about them so you can enjoy them, not wasting time searching for them. The only difference between searching the scripts for unit_enter_vehicle_immediate and searching legit is that days of time weren't wasted.

Like Kornman said, people are having fun flying around in the pelicans/phantoms. That's what matters, not how it was found.