No disrespect Chivas but you have said alot of "common sense" that never happened, i remember you saying the graphic rewrite should allow AA and AF to be used etc.
A common sense approach does not apply for CLOD, one exsample: a few patches back, the patch killed sound in CLOD, the only way to fix it was to turn off trees.

You resort to sarcasm all you want mate: " if it makes you sick and tired, for health reasons I suggest you read only those that suit your point of view" ! And you can speculate all you like as long as you let people know its your opinion while your posting !...I dont want to trawl the forums to collect all the posts you made defending 1c(but I will if I have to)!..Here are some facts mate (1)The release of this sim in the state it was in was unplayable for most of the people that purchased it !...(2)People that did purchase it believed that upgrading their hardware would solve the problems with COD..it didnt(thats not an opinion,just ask how may people upgraded various hardware just to run COD).(3)In the 15 or so months since it release and all the bug reports sent in,NOTHING has been "Fixed" 100% !(4)When customers ask for explanations or remedies we get pictures of tanks(We purchased a FLIGHT SIM)!..In other words,develepor interaction with its customers was non-existant relating to the problems with COD !...(5)We have been told by Blacksix that "this issue will be fixed in a few days,weeks" and NOTHING changed !...These are MY (and alot of other people that purchased COD) Facts and if you just want to "Blindly" defend a company that treats it customers like "Mushrooms" then ,thats up to you !......Lets move on to speculation...Imagine 1c telling us"Thers been a big Blunder with COD and we "Come Clean" to tell you we need your help as a flight sim community,to keep this great WW2 Flight Sim alive !.....Thats Speculation for ya!

I dont want to trawl!

Not exactly. There was oodles of cuss and discuss (mostly cuss) about several sims being impacted by DRM/CP at the time when the forum was created. It was started because the same/similar yada yada was showing-up in multiple forums, and conversely, information was getting missed. Better to directly address it in discussion than tuck it away in some dark corner.

... They knew it would alienate many in the community, as they wouldn't be able to see the forest for the trees ....

They can't see the forests at all since the beta patch ...

Even if it's there, if you can fly through it without damage, does it really exist? I think you need a new "catch phrase" Chivas....the trees are porked in so many ways in the sim, your saying is just ironic.