Air Traffic OFF under General Settings also disables online traffic

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
Settings > General > Global Rendering Quality (expand) > Air Traffic

Air Traffic can be set to OFF, LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH

When set to OFF, all the in-game AI Aircraft disappear as intended.
However, all the online player aircraft disappear as well.
The latter should not be how it is.
Some players have there own third party traffic injectors (e.g. BeyondATC users) and have no need for the default ATC or AI Aircraft injection, but they still want to see online players when the default AI Aircraft are gone.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
NA

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue? NA

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Since after as I can remember in SU1.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

easiest way to see this happen.

  1. have live players and online on, and set Air Traffic to LOW, you should see some AI aircraft immediately and the other online players in your vicinity
  2. go to settings, set Air Traffic to OFF, all the AI traffic disappear but so do the online players

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:
NA

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
NO

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
NA

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
7900XTX

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
windows 10, 13700k CPU, 64GB RAM

MEDIA

Please add a screenshot or video of the issue occurring. NA

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This isn’t a bug, if you go onto the map screen in the live settings you can control player traffic separately from AI traffic. So you can have player only traffic. The option in the settings is to have more control in different scenarios like career mode for example.