Why do they remove features with “upgrades” – Garmin Pilot Review

Was looking forward to cool new stuff from the acquisition of flightplan.com, but Garmin continues to follow the pattern of taking stuff away with upgrades. This time it is fuel planning that no longer works. The flight plan used to be able to show time distance and fuel required for each leg. But there’s something mysterious missing in the fltplan.com profile for my experimental and now time and fuel no longer calculate. And I can’t submit a flight plan through the fltplan.com integration. Thank god Leidos still works but I bet they’ll take that away soon. Previously they took away my favorite calculation “vertical speed required” which was so nice to simply know if I start descending now what rate is needed to arrive at my dest. Nope. That’s gone. I have been converted from a real Garmin fan to a hater. I wish I could stop getting their updates, what critical features will they take away next? I wish Garmin would allow other vendors to connect to their equipment as then I wouldn’t regret buying Garmin avionics too. Thanks for making me despise your products, Garmin.
Review by FreeFly42 on Garmin Pilot.