7 hours ago, MattNischan said:

Come on now. We're part of this community, and it's a real shame to encounter this level of snark when just trying to be as helpful as possible. The old system caused problems, this new system solves those problems. Isn't that the goal?

It's born of frustration at the "old system" which causes these problems somehow.
If the solution that you promise does indeed work then no one will be more pleased than I will be. 
Some of the "snark" is also a result of your assertion that the current solution to many users' problems,
should be avoided.
Most of the issues encountered when installing a new addon are indeed most often resolved by deleting the
Content.xml file and/or the scenery.dat files and there is a wealth of anecdotal evidence that this has
solved the problems.

It works without, but be aware that some addon-ons like navigraph do still need this file for install purpose, until a new version comes out.

For those of you with the Fenix Airbus you may want to check this thread over on the official forums before deleting content.xml

Fenix A320 overspeed + AP issues with SU10 ( FIXED!) - Sim Update 10 BETA / 3rd Party Mods - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

On 7/20/2022 at 3:53 PM, MattNischan said:

In fact, user control has been increased, as there is now a load order override option within the sim menu.

I'm glad we can still control load order, as I have my own personal scenery package which both adds and removes things, and to remove something my package needs to load after whatever package has the thing that doesn't belong (for example, the very amazing VFR addon has one antenna that no longer exists IRL in my area, so I removed it with an exclusion rect).

On 7/21/2022 at 12:52 AM, webstef68 said:

It works without, but be aware that some addon-ons like navigraph do still need this file for install purpose, until a new version comes out.

The current version of the Navigraph Data Manager for MSFS requires content.xml to be present. They have already said they will modify the manager to work with the new system, but will not do so until SU10 is officially released in August.

On 7/22/2022 at 6:01 AM, Keto Ketchup said:

I'm glad we can still control load order, as I have my own personal scenery package which both adds and removes things, and to remove something my package needs to load after whatever package has the thing that doesn't belong (for example, the very amazing VFR addon has one antenna that no longer exists IRL in my area, so I removed it with an exclusion rect).

You don't need anything exotic like content.xml to deal with this: just name your package alphabetically after all the rest. Anything in community already loads after everything in official, and then alphabetically. So name the package zzzzzzzz-myexclusions or something.

The load order is in the SDK documents in the VFS article.

On 7/20/2022 at 9:05 AM, fppilot said:

My experience is that by closely managing/limiting with Addons Linker what I load for a particular flight or series of flights significantly speeds MSFS startup as MSFS only indexes/sees what I have told it to see.

I use the long load time to do my flight planning, same amount of time messing around with addons Linker....

4 hours ago, BIGSKY said:

I use the long load time to do my flight planning, same amount of time messing around with addons Linker....

I make changes in Addons Lilnker for particular flights in likely less than one minute as the management is continuous over the range of flights.  If you can complete flight plans that quickly kudos to you, SE!

Hummm?  After well over a year?  Humm?  What side of the  proverbial Covid 19 vaccination argument are you on?  Any other arguments you wish to initiate?

Big Sky?  Why did you leave Montana?

Edited October 29, 20232 yr by fppilot