Pilot etc are turned off in 2020 planes. There are major issues in their placement in planes when brought into 2024. I won’t hazard to guess the technical reason, as there are many possible reasons.
The washed out/dim displays was a known issue prior to release. I believe a fix was made, but, it didn’t make it into the release candidate (I only read that it was fixed, I didn’t see any posts confirming that developers ever saw the fix). I think the expectation is the fix for the dim displays will be integrated into the week of Dec 9 update, assuming the fix was actually real and they didn’t find any other issues with it.
I don’t know if a fix for characters in 2020 planes will make it to the next update, or any update for that matter. I haven’t seen any indication they’ve fixed it, or that they’re planning on fixing it. Doesn’t mean they aren’t, I just haven’t seen any chatter about it other than characters are turned off currently due to issues placing them. (attached to their points every which way. Ok, I’ll hazard a guess, the points may not have a coordinate system defined or used, so the characters can attach every which way and in whatever configuration they feel like since there’s no definition for it)