and never is a scenario given where a thought process developed of whether an evacuation should be done, or would it be better to keep the pax in their seats?
Some of my sim Fire RTOs have resulted in keeping the pax on board after assessing the situation. Hopefully, this will prompt some thinking if indeed some sims are "just playing it by the numbers".
The sim events are just a case of playing it by numbers. Fire before V1, stop, Evacuate. So they are trained to be robots, which as this event has shown, may not result in the best handling of such an occurrence.
Had the BA crew been robots, I suggest that the whole event would have gone much more smoothly than it did.