Likewise, unfortunately, HAGS On or Off made no difference on my system.
I have therefore decided to raise a request with Microsoft Flight Simulator Support for which I received the following response:
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Thank you for contacting Microsoft Flight Simulator Support today.
Before doing anything else, we invite you to restore the sim to its vanilla state and try again.
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I will follow instructions, hopefully we will resolve the issue soon.