I've been wondering about this myself. Being a Mac user, I haven't really had a chance to use recent versions of MSFS in a couple decades. But... like you, I spent a lot of time learning rudiments of flying and navigation from it about 25 years ago. Appallingly, on my first and only flying lesson over Los Angeles (c. 2002), I knew enough about the controls and instruments that the instructor thought I knew what I was doing, and allowed me to take off and land by myself. The landing bit didn't work out that great and required some major intervention at the last second... but, still here ;)