I’m thinking (as mentioned before) at this point that this is less of a bug per se, and more just absolutely horrible, un/counter-intuitive UX design that needs a total rethink. Needing to use the ATC interface (and having the doors open) to spawn the passengers from cold and dark, but being able to just spawn them in from start on runway using the EFB, seems like the sort of design accident that happens when teams aren’t talking to each other or are designing for different use cases, not something that would ever be deliberately agreed upon in advance. And without a doubt, the entire thing is very poorly documented (yay Agile!)
But also I really hope that the loading interfaces in the EFB are a 0.8 stub and we’re going to get something more fleshed-out and intuitive in future releases