Nothing unusual there with MSFS ATC. They’ll try to get you to do all kinds of stupid things.
My most recent incident of ATC stupidity was yesterday. I was doing an IFR flight with the C172 Classic. Cruise altitude was 9000 ft. There was some weather ahead, so I asked for 7000 to fly under it, which I got. I was then instructed to climb to FL240 when 15NM from my destination. Had to cancel out my IFR and finish off my flight VFR instead.