It has not even a month old for heaven’s sake people…give it a chance.
The Missions are the core design of the Career mode.
Will no one acknowledge that you create a new problem if you take the Career mode mission structure and make it a free flight activity?
Doing so would gut the design of the Career mode game play which in turn means you have no purposeful gameplay…again. That was a problem with MSFS 2020 for a lot of players.
Career Mode only adds to MSFS 2024 and it is important for MSFS longevity.
It keeps the MSFS 2020 players who stuck it out waiting for this to be developed in the 2024 release and it attracts new gamers, which the vast majority expect purposeful gameplay. All the successful games have that.
Nothing is lost, It does not take anything away that was in MSFS 2020 as just a simulator…it still is.
Also, career Mode is not that hard.
I have played maybe all of 100 hours in career mode and I have already nearly maxed out the Fixed Wing Tree. And that is with having to work around the bugs. If they can fix the bugs and refine it a bit …it would be even easier.