Dear Umberto, I think you did misunderstood me!
I think, instead, you have a big misunderstanding about what GSX did and what it does now.
the previous GSX Jetway animations no longer work
That's the issue: there were NO jetways animations in GSX before GSX Level 2. Jetways worked or not, depending how they were made, and the presence of GSX didn't had any effect on them.
- If a scenery came with default CTRL+J Jetways, they would work like that, regardless of GSX
- If a scenery came with SODE Jetways, they worked thanks to SODE, regardless of GSX
- If a scenery came with static jetways, they never worked, regardless of GSX
About SODE, it seems you are confusing the animation itself (which is always possible, with SODE), with the integration on the GSX boarding/deboarding menu. That was just a shortcut for the normal SODE menu.
So no, we haven't taken away any animation, which wasn't done by GSX in any case. The animation for a 3rd party scenery that comes with SODE jetways was and still is always possible, regardless if GSX is installed or not. The only ANIMATION you cannot see, unless you purchase GSX L2, is the one of
GSX SODE Jetways, which are different from normal SODE jetways that comes with 3rd party sceneries.