Open an insider program, let the general public have early access to the updates. Let us take some load off of them and do the testing for them. It’s free labour from the community plus it exposes their patches and updates to various different hardware specs and configuration and being used by people flying the sim in completely different ways.
Not letting us test for them is merely doing testing in a controlled environment with a specific hardware and specific ways of flying. They can pass all these tests in a lab, but they won’t be able to understand the impact to the general public when it’s fully released.
At least having an insider programme from the general public to test it for them. Reporting early bugs will allows them to have a general idea on what would happen if they roll out the update, and have sufficient time to fix them for the general public release.
It also allows third-party developers to have early access to see how their mods will behave, so if there’s any issue, they can promptly get their mods ready for when the updates roll out for everyone.
There’s only so much the developers can do to test them. Let us help lighten their load by testing these updates and patches earlier than everyone else.