I love the 3rd party ecosystem. I do agree that I wish we didn’t need them for certain things that should be included in the base sim, such as hiding the toolbar, basic pushback, functional avionics, correct flight dynamics, auto save, reply, etc. But I’m eternity grateful that we have the option to get this stuff from an outside source.
The sim was built as a platform. Jorg has said that the entire business model was designed for 3rd party developers to make a living. They have directly said that they don’t want to make things like the default aircraft too good, where they’d take business away from 3rd party developers.
I don’t agree with this philosophy, but I understand it