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but I feel that the Jastas took casualty avoidance too far.
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I'm very doubtful at this statement. In late 1917 the german airplanes were not only just not competitive, the allies have also outnumbered then more and more. So I think the germans just did the only thing what was right in this situation: Simply mot attacking when the odds are against you. They could not efford avoidable losses of men and machines in greater numbers like their opponents could. German supply was quite stretched already at this time and it didn't became better in 1918.
So in my eyes the german had simply no choice. They weren competitive enough for struggleing with the allies at each encounter.