I'm addressing that broad statement that Oleg made, not IL2BOP. Whatever it ends up being, whatever LEVEL of sim it is, I'll enjoy it. I'm not a sim snob, I like all kinds of games.
Not sure why other pc gamers love the term "dumbing down" when it's often simply a matter of making a logical layout. Probably just for the derogatory tone. Half of the possible controls on IL2 aren't even assigned when you install it. That implies how they intend the game to be played IMO.
However, you skirted the issue that in Black Shark many things are controlled by looking at it in the cockpit and hitting it with your mouse. A simple click of one button. That could easily be done on a controller.
Saying it "can only be made on the PC and not on consoles" is bs. That's a statement about hardware. To me it just says they don't want to bother with having to come up with ways to map the controls. Easier to stick things on random keyboard keys with no logical layout. SO much easier to be random than apply thought to cover the bases. At least there would be no need to map comm controls since most have a headset anyway. Nah, it could be done, but it would take thought, patience to suffer through quality testing by MS or Sony (another big deterrent in their minds) and again, a publisher.
The hardware can do it, it's PEOPLE that are the problem. The game buyers as well as the game developers. In all of the console gamers, there are probably enough to support a flight sim as there are to do so on pc. A small percentage of console gamers, but that's a small percentage of a very large number.