Heh, that sounds like quite the hacky workaround! I’m happy to hear that you find it to be working, though.
This is an ongoing issue in the simulator that affects pretty much all our products for MSFS 2024. In short, 2024 brought a regression to the way that the simulator handles package ordering. We (Navigraph) can no longer explicitly specify in what order our AIRAC should be loaded!
Instead, it is likely that the simulator falls back to alphabetical order for the packages. This will produce unreliable results, and the outcomes will most likely vary depending on what you have in your community folder.
Someone else fixed this by manually ordering the packages through the developer menu but it has to be done every sim restart, as far as I understand, so it is not convenient at all. See this post:
At the moment, there is nothing we can do to help this. We have created a (so far unattained to) bug report in the official MSFS forums if you are interested:
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Kind Regards,
Malte