This make sense. There are some nice features in the patch for free. I'm not against TK nor Thirdwire, but updating all my install (very nice now as is), seems to be an overwhelming amount of work (for now, at least until someone make patches cleaning the possible issues with Vietnam Gold, Independence war, NATO fighters, etc (I'm talking about environtment, skins, decals, squadrons and ini edits in planes among others). In addition to this, there seems to be problems with custom campaigns. I fly mainly campaigns and I have customized to my taste nearly all. I have spend many hours to tuning these campaigns, so, for now, I'll stay without updating, because my install works perfectly.
I'm sure that in some time, TK will give us some fix to the issues. If so, I'll be very grateful and will update the whole thing. The fade thing is a little disgusting, but I can live with it, because all good things in the patch. The deffinitive show stopper for me is the breaking of custom campaigns.