I am very serious about that for sure and I agree with you guys.
I suppose if devs use this as a method to find potential airports, people will stick to the biggest ones and their local ones (I would only play my hometown airport and my local airport here in cuz why not? But seeing other airports in the same layout isn’t something I’d like to see) so it is never going to work.
The winner will always be the biggest (and probably most famous) ones and airports in cities with the most people.
We used to have a dashboard (feedback portal) with votes on potential airport and let’s simply bring that back in the game, it works better, maybe?