If you want to vote on this improvement it’s here (the vote button is at the top of the post) : Updating the sim is too complicated (too many steps)
But the point is that it shouldn’t require you reading or even finding blog posts, or going to forums, or looking up howto guides which no doubt only a minority of people will do, to figure out how to update something SO key to the sim - the regions. If to install world updates requires you leaving the sim, you’ve failed profoundly in good software design. MSFS users aren’t necessarily IT admins who are paid to read update releases, consult regularly the blogs of companies they have software for to see what’s changed etc.
Game updates are mostly uncomplicated, hands-off processes that are designed to NOT require too much complexity as the customer base could be anyone, including young kids who just play and never update to 80 year olds who are hardened pilots but don’t understand what the word update even means.
At a minimum, this could be SO easily included on the home screen after the mandatory update as a clear notification (an example):
“UK and Ireland update available - Download - X”
(the X meaning dismiss if you’re not interested). What drives me insane is that when a WU or CU become available the loading screens change and the update is really pushed in your face, leading you to believe that your sim is getting better or updated. Then the sim requests a bunch of updates through the Content Manager directly related to what you just saw (and it turns out they’re just other WU dependencies for the Marketplace download), so there is this very clear process that tells the user “The Sim is now updated with the X Region update, cool, I can’t wait to fly there”.
Pure and simple it’s not very well thought through.