Good read! I bought Outerra many years ago when you could basically take a truck, plane and walk around for transportation. Even then it was incredible how optimized it was and i had great performance on my half-decent computer with 560 Ti.
Count me in on the kickstarter project aswell.
Regarding the flightsim-community. Sure it's small, but i think we're growing as for now. With MIcrosoft pulling out but other companies buying the code to further develop it, i think we're heading the right direct. With the amount of credits LM has gotten for P3D it seems to me like it can be tough to challenge them. But if someone is supposed to do it, it's you guys!
P.S
Flightsimmers tend to spend lots of money on hardware and software
D.S