All the point of DCS is a very detail and realistic simulation.
It's not just a clickable cockpit, it's an ideology, it's the depth in every single system, in every little sub sub sub menu in some apparently "unimportant" feature in the navigation computer.
like it in real life\simulator as in ED products.
So, if will be some third parties less detail and realistic than ED products, we completely lost the way.
And i don't understand why to drag Flaming Cliffs to DCS..the only thing i can think of, is take the Su-25\T and make it to DCS standards, when it's not a lot of work.
don't get me wrong, i'm very happy with the new way of the DCS World and the third parties, but, it must, must be at DCS level, if it requires to work with ED, or if it require to ED to teach the third parties how to make DCS standard, and the tools, or even the third parties make most of the product and ED to done all the complex stuff.
and, for terrain, third parties will be a great idea.