The MSFS update process - the digital equivalent of a Rube Goldberg Machine?

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With you 110%. And from a comment made above, Microsoft/Asobo is requesting our advice on what needs to be improved about the process. Amazing!

Official Discussion: Hotfix 1.18.15.0

No 1.18.15.0 hotfix for me now just launching sim and going through “checking for update …” (I checked MS Store first, too). Still on 1.18.14.0. As far as removing packages from the Community folder, why can’t Microsoft be clever enough to make the Community folder “invisible” during the update process? Then after the update, make it functional again and appropriately updated for the latest sim updates, even identifying if possible packages that are going to cause problems (Windows is clever …