My normal set up is tarting with cold and dark situation (not sure if pilots and crew get often to board the plane in such unpowered status, but for the sake of simulating all the process I assume they do). So, I wonder if two things (options) could be possible (if they do not mean a big deal, because this is just a sort of nice to have, not an issue at all)
Kick of GSX without requesting any action, just to make all the vehicles show up in place to bring a bit of live to an isolated plane on the platform as soon as loading the flight in the sim?
When selecting boarding, GSX quite nicely ask if Pilots and crew should also board, and if selected, the all do it in sequence. I often find that it takes me longer to reach the cabin set status when I would like the passengers to start boarding, so, could the pilots and crew boarding option be not linked to the passengers boarding?
Cheers
As I said, just a wish list