Surprising Lack of QoL Improvements in 2024

[PopsMcDaddyo]

Excellent post Nixon. I agree (for reasons laid out in the following thread). Unfortunately, a number of these have carried over into MSFS 2024.

From May of 2022, some thoughts on the topic:

Create a small team to handle small "Quality Of Life" items, the low-hanging fruit

The idea would be for the Developers to triage the Wishlist to identify small, low effort, easy to implement “Quality Of Life” items. With the Developers identifying ones that they feel are “low-hanging fruit”, and pass them on to a small team of Programmers to focus on and handle. Perhaps a small QOL Team of maybe 3 to 5? The QOL Team would focus on these, versus the heavies that we all know and love (CTD, VR, Weather, Traffic, ATC, Flight Model, Aerodynamics, Marketplace, WASM, DX12, Physic…

An important post from that thread:

Create a small team to handle small "Quality Of Life" items, the low-hanging fruit

For anyone curious, a lot of the quality-of-life Wishlist topics are catalogued under the tag #ux (“user experience”). Under that tag, you will find many of the little things, the gotchas, that bother people.

Note that there is a typo- the tag is ui, not ux as written.