Its not to “appease a few glider pilots”. I and some other reporting weather problems are RL glider pilots who spend hours in air only because we can properly read the sky and accurately find thermals, no kind of powered flying requires so much skill in reading weather as weather is literally our engine and we quickly are able to detect absurdities and lack of realism in current msfs weather.
Current model is broken as they simply cut off ground thermals height if they do not arrive near cloud, while in RL such thermal would either create cloud or be so insignificant it wouldn’t arrive at condensation height. Cloud and thermals should be a cause (thermal) and effect (cloud) system with proper lifecycle while now clouds are generated independently from ground thermals giving unexpected and too much lift mostly everywhere.