Seems not much has improved since this thread saw the light of day.
Spent most of this afternoon (boss gave me Sunday off) researching Traffic Global for XP11. Which led me further down the XP and ATC path…
Seems XP11 is going to be a VFR-only sim for me. Which it is really good at, superior I’d say, to P3Dv4 (last version I used). The simple, call up for an altimeter setting every now and then kinda simulates the lone-wolf, low-rent, “clear of clouds”, middle-of-nowhere box-hauler
For heavy-meal, Big Iron, IFR’ing though - it’s way too quiet.