That is absolutely true. They’ve brought that on themselves though by launching an unfinished product with far too many bugs and no documentation. If you put what is essentially barely tested low beta level software out there, don’t be surprised if you get deluged with complaints. That’s the reason for having a beta level option.
If you sell something for money that barely works and isn’t finished, you can’t really complain when people object to that. The idiotic PR approach (e.g. the supposed “beta testing” which was actually a giant PR exercise rather than actual beta testing) doesn’t help either.
If they’d have limited it to the basic version with the upgrades coming in a few months, people would have been okay with that, like they are basically okay with the helicopters not being there.
This is the problem ; you can’t really do “without AP” unless you sell it as a partly completed flight sim which is VFR only. (The c172 AP as far as I can see works just about well enough, though it does occasionally go bonkers for no apparent reason). IFR flying is largely reliant on the avionics for most people, they don’t hand fly it in the way I might fly the 152.