This is the interview I was referring to:
I hope the link works.
As to the video you reposted as I said before:
What a PR disaster. Contradicting his CEO, who went on record a few months before repeatedly stating that the PC version would not be “dumbed down”.
No wonder people are upset and feel betrayed especially those with the more performant systems as they were let to believe by Asobos own marketing how visually great MSFS would be.
Most likely some proactive statement from Asobo before SU5 release along the lines of “listen we ran into unforeseen technical difficulties with our Xbox code and had to adjust graphics for PC temporarily. Please be patient we can assure you that we are working on it”. Would that be so difficult?