Aerosoft is unfortunately full of ■■■■■■■■ excuses like that. Many years back they had a Fokker jet for FSX, that came out without a VC (2D Panel only back in the day). They wanted to make us believe that the systems sim complexity was so advanced that a VC was impossible. While PMDG was able to do both. That was so hilarious, the official wording on the store page was „Due to the advanced nature …“ 
Guess who one of the devs was back then and now.