What keeps me on 2024 is the environment and performance. The environment looks spectacular and the weather integration is the best there has been in a desktop sim so far. The fluidity of the sim is way ahead of 2020 on the same hardware.
Flight wise then mainly low level VFR using the BE58 mainly and various small helicopters. Currently for a more complex experience I’m doing an around the world in the Fenix 320 and really enjoying that.
ATC is more broken than in 2020 if that’s possible, however there is some background noise, I don’t file IFR with it. Not being able to scale the UI is incredibly annoying, plus so many more places now there are heliports makes it virtually unusable to select a destination and request an approach/landing clearance until really close in busy airspace.
AI live traffic has great promise, I think I’m seeing more real liveries starting to appear however that could be generated by something else, aircraft placement and localisation is bonkers though, a line of Air China short haul aircraft in the take off queue at Boston Logan for example.
I have avoided career mode apart from a very quick look, I do like the idea of engaging that, in 6 months maybe.
I have a pull back to 2020 which I have avoided so far as I want to fly the PMDG 737.
I fully get why people are very frustrated, like most things in life it is how you choose to respond that will define your acceptance level. I am annoyed at having paid out a fair chunk of change for the Premium Deluxe edition and getting what we have, especially the regressions from things that work better in 2020. However I will keep using 2024 for the reasons I gave at the beginning, appreciate there are a bunch of add ons I might be able to use to mitigate some of the points however I’ll bide my time a bit more.