I really think this would make some more money for ED on the side, There's no other flight sim out the box that can do civil flight and combat, ED is already reworking ATC and with the Huey getting a slick version at release there is at least some demand for it. Like another poster said that could open the simulator up to being used on civil flight systems as a trainer many many years in the future if someone else does not do it before hand, I can see one area that's holding it back is lack of 3rd party dev's doing civil aircraft and the fact unlike FSX it cant render the whole world.
When you think hard about this aspect DCS have done great in the combat field now if they want they could open up a little more to the civil field and if the devs come great! Problems can be worked out and resolved. Anyway looking forward to seeing what happens in this field with the big list of combat aircraft that ED and the 3rd Party Devs are making its definitely not going to be on the top of the priority list so for now combat it will stay.
Combat it still stay for the foreseeable future.