RedGiant, your pretty good at throwing the crap. Did you happen to notice that most of the games you mentioned that allow and encourage "modding" also have all kinds of "cheats" and hacking problems? Maybe its because those idiots release game code to the public and basically say "here, hack our game software".
HTC on the other hand doesn't, and us "computerphobic" old farts happen to like it that way. If we are HTC "bread and butter" he's doing a great job of trying to keep that kind of crap out of the game.
If your so impressed with other flight sims, then you go out and buy those games....just add another shelf, so you can fit all those boxes on it.... and get your "invisible plane" hack, with the "mega laser" hack and go have yourself a good time.