It is indeed difficult to determine the root cause of the issues, as you said, everyone has different setup. And some people don’t have the issue, while others have. And it is difficult since we need to know what the common setup is for the people who don’t have the issue versus the people who do.
There’s also lack of understanding the whole feature that MSFS has and where those features are located.
For example, I released an addon called Subtle Taxi Ribbon. In there, I get frequent comments saying how good it is, but asking if I could also remove the boxes that appears on approach before landing.
I replied, those two settings are separate, I don’t need to remove the landing guidance boxes because you can turn it off separately in the assistance menu while keeping the taxi ribbon setting enabled. But they insist that if they turn it off, they also turn off the taxi ribbon. For me that doesn’t make sense because my setup is set that way, Landing Guidance Off, while Taxi Ribbon On.
Only when we had a lengthy conversation, that we realised that the person was talking about the Flight Assistance menu that you can open from the toolbar from inside the flight session. That setting does make both Taxi Ribbon and Landing Guidance appear/disappear as a combined single switch.
Only when I explained it in detail that they have to go to the PAUSE Menu, to the Assistance settings, Turn every assistance to Hard/True to Life, and only enable the Taxi Ribbon. That they can get it working. I’ve been explaining something through a specific menu, but they misunderstood and didn’t realise that they’re setting up from the wrong menu.
This is what I mean, I’ve gone through every single page in my sim options, I go through every single line in there. I turn off All assists both in the flight session toolbar menu, but also from the Pause Menu Assistance. I also make sure I don’t have duplicate binding, I don’t use rudder pedals, and all that. And I just want to make sure that other people are also doing the same due diligence before labelling it as a “bug”.
Because “By Default” the sim will Give you assists. And you have to know where the right setting to turn off so you have full control over your flight and controls. And you can’t do it by just looking at the place that “you think” is where it is. The sim could put the setting somewhere else that you don’t realise. (Like the HUD on external Cam. It was usually on Camera Setting, now it’s moved to Assistance setting and it is “enabled by default”. If you don’t know that this setting is moved into a sub-menu in another menu, you won’t know how to turn it off. And it is this due diligence that people need to do if you want the sim behaves the way you want it to.