just read that what you wrote.. c'mon.. we asked that the menu does not close automatically .. NOBODY ASKED to remove the ability to close it by clicking an X WHY THE HECK ANY ONE WOULD ....
You got it entirely backwards, I'll try to explain it again: we haven't removed the "ability to close it by clicking an X", that's exactly the opposite of what the last fix was about.
Before the last fix, clicking the X would result in the menu just being hidden, but NOT closed ( hidden means you don't see the menu, closed means the toolbar icon becomes inactive, so the menu doesn't respond to GSX anymore ).
This worked perfectly fine for non-VR mode, because this way, with the menu hidden but not closed, you could now use a key to bring it back and, more importantly, if GSX required to pop-up a menu in the middle of an operation, it could show it, something that wouldn't be possible if the menu was really closed. So, in order to make it easier to use, we changed the X button behavior that would always "hide" ( not close ) the menu, because what the X button normally does, is to really close the menu.
After THIS change to the X button, lots of VR users came here immediately, asking to revert this change so now, when in VR, the X button behavior has reverted to default, that is really closing the menu, which also closes the toolbar icon.
Now the Auto-close. I think you are making a big confusion about two completely different things:
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The intentional Auto-close, which was used in the first GSX release, the one even before we added the hotkey and the method of never really closing the menu, but only hiding. This was made before we had the hotkey: GSX tried to figure out depending on the situation if your next likely operation would require opening the menu again, so it would auto-close the toolbar, saving you from a double click ( one to close the toolbar icon, another one to re-open it ), or if it required to pop-up an extra menu instead, so it would not auto-close it, otherwise it could re-open it by itself. This wasn't very reliable because it was difficult to always figure out when it was right to close the toolbar or not.
THIS kind of auto-close doesn't exists anymore.-
The menu Timeout. All GSX menus have a inherent Timeout, some of them timeout without a choice, others timeouts with a default choice and the timeout "time" is different for each one.
The main GSX menu, for example, timeouts without sending any choice, so when it timeouts, nothing happens. Other menus, like the choice of an operator, have a much shorter timeout time, and they timeouts with a choice, and this is of course something that has been asked by users not wanting to be distracted by an extra choice that is not really that crucial so, you have enough time to select an operator, but if you don't care about the operator, the default one will be selected in a few seconds and the service will continue without having to necessarily stop to decide an operator.
That's how GSX always worked since it came out, and the consensus amongst the vast majority of users is they want to have the GSX menu for as little time as required, without being intrusive when you don't need them anymore.
It seems what you are REALLY asking here, is something GSX NEVER HAD, which is the concept of a "Pinned" menu, that's a completely different thing, a completely new feature, which will require several structural changes the way GSX works, because its whole behavior is based on the fact the menu will be only there for a short while.
With a Pinned menu, for example, the entries should always kept updated to show any changes happening to the availability of services or their status, something that is not required now, since they are refreshed when it's reopened. During flight, a Pinned menu should always constantly refresh to show the nearby airports, in case you might want to select one to pre-select a gate before landing so, it's not a "quick fix" as it might seem.
And yes, we already confirmed multiple times adding a pinned menu is something planned for a future update.
