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Some thoughts from my side. First of all the decision to not release this functionality to everybody at this moment has been largely based on inputs from the community here. Personally I was planning to release it, like any other MCX functionality, but the arguments of other developers in the community have convinced me that this is maybe not the right thing to do. You might have another community than the community of developers in mind when you make your statement, but you have to remember that MCX is primarily a tool for developers.
It is not a one-click automatic conversion tool. But it can help a developer to do his work easier, for example by saving the time to have to redo all animations from scratch. Some developers have tested the functionalities in their conversion and it saved them quite some time. But still developer skills are needed to make a functioning aircraft out of the conversion.
The main reason for not releasing the functionality at this moment is that it would make it easier to pirate on the work of developers and take it outside of the FS world. Once you have an aircraft with all animations in glTF format, it becomes very easy to use it in all kind of applications. If the target format would have been restricted to FS only I would have been less concerned. Because MCX can already do conversions with all animations from FSX to P3D for example, but there the content stays in the MDL format. If MSFS would have such a more restricted format I don't see why a conversion from FSX to P3D would be different than a conversion from FSX to MSFS.
And of course the genuine developers that only use a tool to convert their own work or work on models they have permission for to convert are never the problem. Just as user who only do the conversion for their own personal usage and don't share it with anybody else. But the problem are the small amount of users who misuse such a tool and use it to steal the work of others or make conversions of the work of others without their permission. In the end those misuses are against what the community as a whole needs. But I have to agree that balancing those various users is a hard decision.
I want the tool with full functionality to convert the default aircrafts from FSX to MSFS, learn how to make gauges and do all this, but for my own usage, not to reupload them anywhere...