Maybe I should rephrase it...
its cooling down "compared to" the euphoria that flightsim was between FS98 and FS2004.

for those who were not regular flightsimmers in that period the amount of Forum interest, addon releases, virtual airlines, scenery developpers, etc etc was far larger than today, as was the amount of hours spent in flightsim by average simmers.

and its not fair to say the addons were of weak quality, they were considering the technology of the day, extremely advanced, I can mention a few, like the same 727 by captainsim for fs2002/fs9, the DF737 and many freewares like David Maltby and others, some still unsurpassed by todays developpers, or that took many years for a better one to come up.

the 737NG excellently done by the other is a special plane, a) first its the most widely used passenger plane flown today, given this boring world of few models compared to other epochs.
b) Any Tommy teen I-want-to-be-a-pilot carreer dreamer is bound to study and fly the 737ng thoroughly.

So, for introducing to carreeer and training flightsim will be the all favorite simulator, cheap, available and pretty accurate in some features.

But what about flightsim as a hobby? that's the cooling down I meant....compared to...to give you an idea, flightsim created such curiosity in gamers that it was more popular than MS Word or Excel in the early days. Bill Gates had to bundle FS4 with Windows because everybody was talking about siumulating flying a plane.

I see you like the 747..which developer you fly with? the other? come on! any simmer that has been on a 747 can tell their work is still cartoonish, its using gauges and graphics from fs2000, did you know that even Captainsim, the 727, 707 they are using the same gauges released by their first 727 back in ...when 2003?
Ten years have passed! reason? good developpers have also moved on to other things