"Make Instances Real" took a collection instance and made it into a collection this collection would include collection instances if they existed, for example i might have a road instance with a road mesh, but lamppost instances now it has change so the entire group is flattened, it's much like a deep copy being chosen instead of a shallow one, so effectivly this means now it doesn't just create a group that's identicle to the orginal group, it splits all the subgrounds up to demonstrate this create: GroupA: -add two cubes GroupB: -GroupA_INSTANCE (this is an group instance of GroupA) then create a group instance of GroupB, make it "make instances real", it will make the two cubes appear however Blender 2.8 would have made an instance of GroupA, not fully made sub-groups real also How can i "make instances real" in Blender 2.9 like i used to in Blender 2.8? (blender version 2.93.6 LTS)