Some of us live in functioning democracies where "switch to USB-D" won't come with an "it's illegal to give your son a name that wasn't previous a job title" attachment.
Oh I'm sure it's not wasted work. But any content delivered now, for free, is in direct competition with buying a whole new game, probably for >=$70. I guess they're very confident in the new game modes or something.
I'm surprised to see this update- I thought MS were making a "new" Flight Simulator for this year. I'm aware that content creation and game creation are usually quite separate but odd that they'd be release stuff to "keep" you on the "old"/current FS iteration.
The first movie in the Child's Play movie franchise they saw was the third iteration, Child's Play 3; they were motivated to see it because it was banned, an ironic backfire of the censorship decision.