If you would have followed my various (documented !) submits and opinions on the subject I put on this forum directly after SU-4, you’d realize I have always advocated keeping Ultra in like it was at SU-3… and NOT TO set quality equal for unequal hardware.
Your comparison is a false one, MSFS is software, not hardware. There is no camera CCD being replaced, some settings were tuned, to give PC and XBOX members a level playing field during the initial release, to avoid massive complaints. This forum, Zendesk and Asobo/MS have enough on their plate. In my opinion, the MSFS user (any user) should be able to set General Settings stuff to any value he/she likes it to be. Just support the sliders and other wishes. Everybody. XBOX users as well.
I don’t agree with turning a technical issue into an accusation, of “the developers” undermining groups of people (us, PC users),. We now have a topic (this) of 285 submits in General Discussion repeating the downgrading narrative endlessly.
I agree with the opening technically, I don’t agree with the tone of it.