Ideally, this change would allow Dynamics GP Utilities to be able to create SQL Server databases on an Azure SQL Server Managed instance (not to be confused with Azure SQL DB). In addition, CLR assemblies would need to be recompiled for the specific version of SQL Server Managed Instance currently supported. I have a few blog articles discussing my findings and how to overcome:

P1: https://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2018/02/microsoft-dynamics-gp-running-system.html
P2: https://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2018/02/microsoft-dynamics-gp-running-system_23.html
P3: https://dynamicsgpblogster.blogspot.com/2018/02/microsoft-dynamics-gp-running-system_26.html