So I went through the latest development update and here is colour coded bugs/wishlist top 24 and top 49 wishlist items for the devs to look at. I coloured weather (W) as green, graphics (G) as yellow, gameplay (GP) as red, and flight model (FM) as blue.
Here is the total for the number of issues and total number of votes for each issue type.
Out of these top topics we have about 50x more votes for graphics and gameplay than we do about the flight model.
However, I think people did get excited when MS released the CFD model for the first time so it could be that it’s not that people just don’t care but more that they’re not sure which is a valid vs invalid complaint not being pilots themselves.
The issue is that if Asobo mainly look at the number of votes for various topics to decide what to prioritize, the issues with the flight model will be left behind. So I think just looking at the votes may not result in the best possible sim. Perhaps judging the flight model complaints based on their own merit or always committing to make some improvements to the flight model in each sim update would be a big step forward.