It’s a known issue, and it was #20 on last week’s feedback snapshot:
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ATC is largely based on legacy FSX code. Working Title has stated that they will be tackling some ATC stuff this year (the linked video was recorded last year). Its not clear if they will be owning the entire thing or if they will only take a piece of it.
I don’t know what the official plan is, but my hope is for a comprehensive rewrite of ATC to support different regional phraseologies and accents, different transition altitudes and procedures in different countries…maybe even the ability to figure out what the active runway is (or even SIDs and STARs) from live FlightAware data. (Maybe! Who knows?) I think such a rewrite would be better in the long term, but in the short term, it would probably mean that we won’t see much movement on some of these ATC bugs for a while.