Thanks all for voting and sharing your experiences. Being able to flawlesly open and interact with the WMR would enable many useful features (3rd party apps/charts/recording in VR). Given that MSFS is looking into controller support, the exposure of this bug will certainly increase (as a VR crash will be only one click away).
Great to see that the bug is finally recognised and “under investigation” in the roadmap:
If any dev is looking into this and needs further explanation - feel free to reach out. I also reported this via zendesk with all diag reports etc.