Two years ago, I wrote an article about 2017 being a possible golden age for flight simulation. Back then, X-Plane 11 was in beta, Dovetail Games was full steam ahead with Flight Sim World, ORBX was teasing the fact that they were moving to other platforms and a lot more was happening in the simming community.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.helisimmer.com/editorial/goodbye-2018-hello-2019/