The scenery from Seattle used in the promo material is NOT payware. I just took a quick flight there just now, and the Space Needle is there, in all its glory. I have no pay-ware installed.
So it’s not disingenuous at all. They showed what you get with the base sim.
Maybe you don’t have Photogrammetry turned on?
If your point is ‘why allow third parties to sell payware add-ons for areas that are already covered quite well in the base sim’…
Then you can make the comparison to third parties selling floor mats for your car, just with red stitching instead of black.
The original car was advertised with black floor mats with black stitching, pretty nice quality.
Would it then be disingenuous to sell the third party floor mats with the red stitching?
It’s up to you as a consumer to decide what you spend your money on.