Stephen - Thanks for an excellent review.
I just wanted to point out that the Just Flight 152 has some stiff competition in X-Plane 11:
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/43872-unofficial-xp1110-upgrade-to-carenado-c152ii-v32-by-nhadrian/
I fly them both, and I find the Carenado/NHadrian model easier to fly. I'm not sure if it's less realistic or if it's a better model. Maybe you could take a look and compare the two!