So this is really about eye candy vs complexity
One of the reasons I have such a hard time with this sim is its hard to make anything look actually bad in it but it brings half baked products to the floor.
PMDG will put systems and complexity of making the aircraft fly as real as possible ahead of eyecandy. Which is what I personally think every payware addon dev should stride for if their charging for money. If I see a ERJ145 for $70 and it uses the default systems and is really just the model then to me thats just a scam artist blinding the buyer with eyecandy instead of getting the actual flying experience of an ERJ145.
Think as we get farther down the road here we are seeing a plato of the half baked payware planes and nice gradual upward rising of the complexity. However think of it as a locked proportion when you raise the complexity you also lower the eyecandy visuals to make it optimized.
Now like I’ve previously stated, its hard to make anything look bad in msfs, and with the general users eye sight you won’t notice that its 2d texturing or reused texturing from P3D unless your someone who paints and textures and pays attention super closely to those details.