IMHO it's a good thing that ACES is shut down.  They werent gonna fix FSX anymore, instead moving onto FS11, and so now the hardware can catch up to FSX.

Flight sim is a hobby for many of us.  Hobbies usually require money for upkeep etc.

Anyone who denegrates the FS activity by calling it just an $80 game is disqualifying and discrediting themselves from having an opinionn we need to hear.

So please find a cheaper hobby and quit trying to hold the rest of us back. 'Cause that's what happens when developers feel compelled to waste resources on a 8 year old decrepid sim.