Yup, I think that’s exactly how it went down. And this could easily have been mitigated by effective communications. Even saying nothing but pushing the Garmin updates to the next sim update, which is realistically the earliest I think we can expect to see any significant Garmin changes, would have helped mitigate the disappointment in this patch.
I think negotiations may have started back in late December / early January. That was about the time we saw the G1000 development come to a halt and G3000 slow down a bit. Up until that point, the WT guys had been pretty forthcoming about their future plans. They were very heavily touting their new nav system / flight planner (whatever it’s called) developed for the CJ4 and how they were planning on bringing that to the Garmin products as well. And then suddenly, silence.
It was in about the late January time frame that questions about future plans to their mods were always replied to with “we have something in the works, but we can’t talk about it”. So that’s likely about the time the wheels went into motion into making this happen.