So many design decisions in this sim appear to have been made in the knowledge that it would be a dual-platform PC and console game and so a design that is ‘workable’ for both platforms is what we end up with. A compromise. The camera system is much more like that of a mainstream game than it is like the other sim platforms and given Asobo’s background in games development that’s not entirely surprising.
Getting Asobo to spend significant time working on what would be PC-only features like a full camera API that something like ChasePlane could use is probably hard for Microsoft to justify, unless legions of us were crying out for it and upvoting it on the wishlist. Which sadly is not happening.