Would FSDT be open to a compromise with concessions from both sides (FSDT and FS9 customers)?
What if you agreed to remodel KLAX for FS9, even if it will take some time, with the agreement and clear statement that from here on, there will be no more FS9 versions for ANY future product.
Sorry, no. If it will take too much time, it wouldn't be commercially feasible anymore, because with the few FS9 users left (they are not growing, they are less and less every day), we could spend the time needed to do another product.
So, it will be either a short conversion or there will be no conversion at all. Right NOW, with the established knowledge, a fast conversion is not possible, because the FS9 scenery compiler simply can't take the amount of polygons we used at KLAX (we even have troubles with the FSX compiler, even if its limit is much larger), and will surely look a lot more blurred, because FS9 has 4x less the resolution.
BUT, as I've said, we might find a way to it anyway, possibly by writing new tools that do not exists right now, which means if we manage to do it, we could even continue to support FS9 indefinitely, of course with crippled versions of the sceneries, since they weren't *designed* to look good on both sims, we are only targeting FSX right now so, we don't restrain anymore (like we used to do) to apply design methods that would only look good in FSX.