basically it’s all covered with:
Thermals, Up & Downdrafts - Realism Update
this thread covers more the wishlist for general basic improvements
(very high in the rankings with 540 votes now)
and then recently I made another thread which you have linked already:
Realistic Dangerous Weather - Physics Simulation
this thread aims for the more extreme stuff in terms of realism, also going straight up there in the 3 Months rankings. So I think most people also want more realism which is a very nice direction