Part of the problem is a lack of communication/documentation on how the system is supposed to operate.
Most of the live weather issues that occurred late last year into the first half of this year was finally discovered to be an issue with the sim loading in the wrong forecast hour for a certain portion of the day. (This is why you’d have half the users complaining the weather was wrong while the other half said the weather looked okay to them). It took months for the community to determine when weather was being updated and how often because nothing is documented or explained anywhere. It all was discovered through observation and reporting on our part.
Has anyone noticed how the complaints about inaccurate weather dropped significantly after April/May this year? That’s when the issue was finally fixed and most people had mostly accurate weather since within the confines and limitations of the system. But due to a lack of explanation, by the time it was finally fixed, everyone had already jumped on the METAR bandwagon and used that as the sole explanation for why the weather wasn’t accurate.
Flight simulators are complex, and weather even more so. How the system works and interprets the data needs to be explained to us so we know what to expect and what to look for when things don’t seem right.