Better multiplayer experience

So 3 years on and Multiplayer is still very limited.

Has anyone heard an answer from Asobo as to why a simple “Friends Only” mode was not implemented?

Group seems like a very strange option to me. A Friends setting is all but ubiquitous in pretty much every app/game I use.

On the technical side it doesn’t seem complicated for the sim to handle this. Receive list of aircraft from servers, User ID in friends list and “Friends Only” mode enabled?
True - Show Aircraft
False - Don’t show aircraft