Some complain about lacking LOD in the distance and a few I have heard complaining about the new water in the latest patch. Are they trying to improve performance by tweaking the visuals?

At least on my system, the water post-patch looks flat, reflection-less and appears to lack the small wave textures that were there before, especially at slightly higher altitudes and up to 7 or so knots of wind. With higher windspeeds, it looks strikingly great again.

Of all things, I did rather enjoy the calm water graphics in MSFS, but do not like the new version. 

It seems like a weird situation and there are some conflicting reports. 1.8.3.0 broke the appearance of waves at lower wind speeds, and while 1.9.3.0 took some steps to improve them (still not as good as before), the waves at higher wind speeds are glitching, the foam textures are exhibiting repetition artifacts, and reflections at nighttime are totally broken. I think they should just revert the water behaviour to the 1.7.14.0 version.

Lmao, everyone has a different opinion on even the most basic things. Feel bad for Asobo.