Hesitations at regular intervals with ASFS and MS2024 SU5

[fzik]

I have been experiencing brief pauses ever since MSFS2024 was upgraded to SU5. I have spent lots of hours troubleshooting this and the culprit seems to be ASFS. Whilst Google AI says lots of people are having this "rythmic hesitation" mine is every 7-10 seconds, I haven't seen anyone mentioning this as a problem in this forum. I tried extending the interval for weather updates and a few other settings but to no avail so I've had to set ASFS into passive mode and this lets MSFS depict the clouds but leaves the wind to Active Sky. I have a relatively high-end system (9800X3D, RTX 5080, 3840x1600 @144hz). I'd like to revert back to full use of ASFS so if anyone can tell me what I should be doing I would welcome that or, I'd like to know if there's anything in the works to address the changes ASOBO made in SU5