My honest belief is that the technology that supports MSFS (I'm talking about Azure mostly) evolves at such a speed that they found themselves both capable and, maybe to some extent, forced to rewrite part or all the core before they initially expected.
I use tu be cautious when buying games, but flight sims are my main thing by a long shot. I'll probably buy on day 1.
One day I used to browse Reddit. Basically next day I switched to Lemmy / Kbin.
I only arrive to reddit when the search engine gives me what I'm looking for over there. No regrets. It is valuable info that deserved to be consumed. When I make effort to create valuable info I now create it in federated media.