This and some other “features” - that are actually bugs for most of the regular users - make me think that this product is developed having in mind a minority of newbies or casual players, instead of the majority, which is made of simmers and long time users of the product. Which is odd…
I don’t know what the market strategy is, but IMHO the skilled simmers are those spending money on such product and if I was the developer I scrapped many game features from the default installation, keeping it clean and functional and offering those as an option for the user to install it if he likes/wants. It comes to my mind the “assist” modes, A.I. ATC, poorly developed aircraft, dumb A.I. traffic, and so on.
How many of the customers are actually using these features and for how long?! Maybe the newbies are using it until they get used to the sim and discover the real potential of the game, communities, MODs, etc.
Instead of wasting time and money in developing such useless “bonuses”, the dev team should focus on the realism of flight dynamics, aircraft systems, and operational tools (i.e. fleet administration, enhanced airport operations - would be nice). This would be money worth, too!
My 2 Cents.
K. (MSFS store edition.)
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