I’m in no position of saying anything about your frustration, since I completely share it. Today I replied to a bug report I did in december. Six months later, apparently the team “isn’t able to reproduce”. Took me five minutes to reproduce, and four of them were firing up the sim. So, what can I say.
I decided to spare some time from MSFS and wait at least for SU3, but most probably I won’t be touching MSFS until SU4. 2020 gives me an unpleasant feeling of “I shouldn’t be on this one, and I paid 200 bucks to have a better sim”. And 2024 simply doesn’t make the cut yet. The sim is way behind what was expected, the airplanes don’t work (Saab 340 was the reason why I paid for a more expensive version and there you have it, it’s a virtual paperweight), bugs are here and there, etc. Actually, while I was writing the bug report the sim completely froze and had to close it from the task manager.
What I did was switch to X-Plane 12, following the recommendations of other simmers. Of course, it doesn’t have either the variety of airplanes nor the terrain quality that MSFS has. Nevertheless, with some free addons, the experience is quite pleasant. If you’re a bush trip lover, probably XP12 isn’ the right tool. Close up terrain doesn’t look nice unless you’re willing to spend some time downloading several gigabytes of ortho imaging (which I’m doing right now, after all, it will be less than the hours I lost managing to get a flight without bugs in 2024). On the other hand, night lighting is miles ahead of 2020 or 2024 (since 2020 is a black hole and 2024 is a christmas tree basically). The ATC works, it actually does real things like giving you a direct to a waypoint in your plan, and you can ask things like for example, a direct. The default airports are awesome. Roads and cities are quite good (my city, Buenos Aires, looks better in XPlane than in MSFS). And if you’re spending most of your time some thousands feet above ground, it even looks better than 2024.
So, am I leaving the hobby in the end? Thought about, but I won’t let this MSFS 2024 awful experience drag me down, and I propose you do the same. After all, we are all simmers. We all do this in our spare time, for the sake and happines of doing it. No one forces us, and we do spend a huge amount of money in this. So, an awful experience shouldn’t drag us down. Lesson learned: I’m never, ever buying again an MSFS pre release. I’m very glad for all the people that don’t have this issues, either because they use other tools to fly (3rd party aircraft, 3rd party ATC, etc.) or simply because they didn’t face them. However there are a lot of other users who face these issues, who feel disappointed, and the last thing to do is let a bad piece of software force you to quit the hobby. There’s much more.
Take a cup of tea, coffee, beer, wine, whatever is your preference, and just try to do your best to enjoy. In the meantime let’s just wait for SU3 or SU4 or the next release to see what happens. Just like MSFS 2024 opening animation said “the sky is the limit”, well… MSFS 2024 isn’t the limit of simming. And probably it will get better, just needs time. And if it doesn’t get better… let’s wait for the next release, or let’s check other simming tools (well for that… you’ll need a PC 
).
Have a good one!
Seb