What an exceptional video, Cody! I enjoyed every second of it (though it further 'complicates'/adds to my want-to-get list of addon products). I think I'm most impressed by your use of the camera effects/angles/fields of view, etc., which really adds to the sense of added reality. When done well, as you do, it further removes your mind from the sense of being confined to a game/computer screen. As Ted mentions, it creates a real experience that way.
I think many of us who enjoy this hobby, and are involved in aspects like modeling, repainting, scenery design, video production, etc., are drawn into it by the cathartic release/solitude it offers, as you describe.
BTW, in the opening scenes, even though that is a scenery which is located in the Sahara, it looks almost exactly like a place I went to in California about two months ago - out in the desert, 102-degrees in the shade, in the middle of nowhere, with just about the only thing close by being a restaurant attached to a long since closed gas station, which looked awfully similar to that in the scenery shown - all to check out a private WWII aircraft boneyard. : )
