[FIXED ON LIVE 1.19.8.0] You are missing packages that are essential to run Microsoft Flight Simulator. Please update the application and try again

Since this post, I fount something which better works in an other order :

1/ Keep what you want in the COMMUNITY folder (typically of you use FBW A320)
2/ In the « official » folder, choose a small Osobo folder and suppress it (or just rename it in *.old. Take a folder which is about 10ko)
3/ Start MSFS
4/ Content manager find the missing folder, download it, and start correctly! It seams to repair a config file somewhere…

Hope that will help. Regards. Alain, France