This can be overcome now using POPM (pop out panel manager). Give it a try with the free version if you’d like to try.
I tend to agree to an extent with the view that the aircraft devs shouldn’t be expected to keep changing. It seems they are getting this need to change from both the sim side and the add-on avionics side. However some devs (not Blackbird specifically) are also guilty of breaking existing operation by changing things. I think this is in part because everyone has had to do their own thing due to poor SDK documentation since launch and a clear lack of standardisation.