Yes, HA is still bugged from time to time (crashes, desyns), but HA is the game mode that keeps many of us in NF. And yes, APA bug is still not fixed. To those who have not played HA for decades, oh yes, you can no longer use smokes as bb, cv, and ss in HA and smokes from the other ships have very long delay (much less smokes than in GB). This tells me that you are not familiar with the HA today at all, and you should try HA again. To those who said that HA is not worth playing, I do not see how someone enjoys playing GB and not HA. GB has little team play (and the same bugs). HA is the only game mode to provide teamwork with fleetmates (yes, I always hope that NF can allow fleetmates to play in the same team in GB like other games, but this will not happen). Fleets give away harbors all the time, so there is no way to tell if a fleet is defending seriously anyway.
Having said all this, players just need to take the win and loss of a harbor not too seriously. HA is a game mode that we can enjoy the game and get how good (or bad) we feel after the battles together as fleetmates and try to earn respect from both teams. So, enjoy the only game mode that is still worth serious game play (and fun) for some of us.