If you are talking about a VFR flight plan with flight following then you get exactly what you would in real life.
ATC does not tell you how to fly your flight plan, unless you ask for help.
Imagine a sector with 20-30 airplanes flying and the poor controller would have to vector all of them, verify they are following instructions and correct if they are not.
They don’t even do that for IFR flights, only during certain approach sectors if that increases safety and aids in traffic volume management.
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