Doesn’t matter whether it makes sense to you or not given it is fact. Tried it a few times, but couldn’t get interested nor enthused by it at all. Maybe just me. I hear what you say about the graphics, but they are potato, I’m sorry. You seem to like it - kind of wonder why you are here then?
But whatever, I certainly didn’t even think about doing this in X-Plane:
Just finished leg 45, 48,910Nm in and around 187 flying hours. I’m probably about half way, although not even got to Africa, most of Asia and Europe yet!
Also, and just to note, all done with the stock TBM and, more recently, the WorkingTitle G3000 mod. I vary between VFR and IFR as I fancy. Got to know the TBM really well.
And I just don’t recognise this from my experience. CTDs so far have been down to the USB controller issue at launch (fixed) and the VFR map issue a while back (fixed). No real issues with the AP or avionics or anything else like that - and the few issues I have had have just made things more interesting and challenging to handle.
And as an aside, I use the save facility all the time. I don’t often get to sit in front of my PC for 4 or 5 hours at a stretch - real life gets in the way. Initially there were a couple of issues, but my experience is that the save facility works well. The only issue with it is that you can’t change the weather after loading - but it doesn’t matter to me as I fly live weather anyway and it loads that in fine (which also works for me every time too…but we maybe best not open that can of worms).