Absolute shambles of a release.
First I waited on the Connect To Xbox Network for an hour thinking it was loading because there is a spinning thing and no mouse cursor.
Then when someone on avsim said they did the same thing hut used AlT ENTER to get a mouse back I clicked through and tried to login but it just sends me an inifinte loop around and around loging in to Xbox again and again, back to it connecting to network.
I am steam like you and I think its something to do with this same issue as I got some strange limitless popup in authenticator but allowing it still doesnt work.
Shocking level of testing and how ridiculous of me preordering this mess, worse than 2020.