The facts suggest otherwise.
70+ IAF aircraft were in formation on the first night, to discharge payloads and take on the PAF.
This is a mobilisation designed to cripple an opponent's air force, nothing less. Indian civilians were baying for an invasion. Why shouldn’t the Indian armed forces, who only ever serve the nation as we are told ad nauseam, attempt to deliver on this?
We know that plan went wrong. There should be no shame in accepting that. Indeed, continuing the delusion only harms the development of IAF. Likewise, denying fallen pilots their basic right to national recognition will only harm morale for those pilots who remain and the bereaved families of lost servicemen.
There is also no way that India's best proposed outcome of a "strategic stalemate" (for the record, I am claiming a marginal Pakistani victory overall and am sure most independent analysts would go AT LEAST that far also) could possibly satisfy your pre-conflict expectations. Even a stalemate is regarded as a victory for Pakistan because our objective was to defend our sovereignty and territory.
Pakistan probably did not want a full war at the outset of hostilities, but India definitely did.