Snow Textures at Airports, anyone?

It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Which means snow! Airport snowplows are (supposedly) reliable, but in in MSFS, I think they do their job a bit too well. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll post two:

And

Is it just me, or does the first one look a tad overdone?

I get that the runways should be very-well cleared, but some snow should remain in the cracks on the runway and along the sides, with some tread marks from planes that already used the runway, like is shown in the second picture (ENTC by artogsta on Flightsim.to). Also, the snowplows don’t plow the EMAS (because if they tried they’d get stuck), yet in MSFS these are always cleared.

If the entire airport looked like the taxiways do, I’d be more than happy.

Is this a separate technique used by the great Norwegian freeware creator? So then why don’t MKStudios and other devs use this technique too? Or maybe its something Asobo need to address?

What’s more is, why hasn’t this gotten proper attention when we are now 6 winters into MSFS’ lifecycle?

Thoughts?

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Personal comments:
Initially in FS2020 snow was covering tarmacs, taxiways and runways. Then a fix has been implemented to exclude snow from those areas since it was difficult to see the runway and taxi to the gate. Maybe this wish is what you are looking for: Improve ground snow/ice textures at airport

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A better solution (and possibly even less effort required) would be to write a special in MSFS which turns the airport and taxiway lights on 24/7 when there is snow, and then there can be snow on the taxiways, runways and aprons like in my second photo.

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Airport lights under snow condition is a different request than having improved snow textures at airport. Both are valid enhancements.

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