Thank you for your post - whilst I think you misunderstand my comment about the wireframe you make some very valuable points.
To address the wireframe, it is important to understand that Asobo stated in the 2020 SDK that accurate definition of shape is key to making an aircraft fly correctly in their game. The ‘slightly better’ ability to define shape in 2024 is what I was referring to with my comments about dragging points around a wireframe - the fact that we cannot and instead have to spend many hours defining individual points is just another example of an unnecessarily unwieldy and convoluted flight model when actually it should be a very simple process.
I do not believe that the creation of a precise shape will give us accurate behaviours. Your example is a perfect one, I will also give you the Avro Vulcan B2, which has a very specific mach tuck countered by a mach trimmer. The trimmer begins to function at 0.87M and above 0.95M there is little aft stick left to counter so the aircraft (if still accelerating) would pitch down. This is a repeatable process which in real life can be precisely defined and is identical in terms of pitch effect v mach every single time it occurs. Yet Asobo’s core flight model is not capable of reproducing this with any accuracy, if at all. The table which was used to define this effect in FSX and prior no longer functions. Realistic, accurate flight modelling is therefore no longer possible in many areas - this is just one example, there are many more!
I think the only real use of the ‘accurate’ shape is to interact with the weather. We still need the ability to define all aerodynamic behaviours over the top of that, using known and understood aerodynamic theory as seen in FSX and aerodynamic papers such as Roskam’s “Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls”. What we do not need is modifiers that aren’t clear what they modify, then scalars on those modifiers. Most of the elements we can now adjust in the flight model are made up by Asobo and have no explanation anywhere.
Such as “What do Asobo expect the flight modeller to do when the accurate dimensions input do not give the known, defined behaviours?” I think it must be over two years that I’ve been waiting for an answer to that one . . .