So, things changed!
From their discord:
Dear Community,
As you may have heard today during the Developer Q&A (Twitch), Working Title will be officially partnering with Microsoft to support the ongoing development of MSFS. This is a very exciting opportunity for all of us here at WT – one which we couldn’t have imagined just a few months ago.
Over the coming weeks, our previously volunteer core development team will be transitioning into full-time roles with Working Title Simulations, where we will be working with Microsoft, Asobo and the other great partners on this amazing platform. We hope that our team’s software development and aviation experience can help drive the already fantastic progress on the Flight Simulator platform.
We do not have answers to every question about the future of Working Title, the platform and the team quite yet. However, we are deeply thankful for all of your excitement and enthusiasm that has helped us get to this point, and our goal is to keep this great community connected and moving forward together. We aim to be as transparent and communicative as possible as the partnership and projects develop.
We ask for the community’s patience and understanding that we will no longer be able to completely disclose roadmaps and details about our work in the platform – details about the future of the platform will continue to be communicated centrally through the official development updates and developer Q&A sessions. It is also our hope that the community will understand that in order to keep this Discord community available and useful, this cannot and never will be an official support forum for MSFS.
We have put together a short FAQ to attempt to answer some of your questions about this exciting announcement and the future.
Thanks! Onward!