It's a conundrum. Accountants have pared training to the bone and the industry has embraced SOPs as the solution to training deficiencies. And the simulators only reproduce the faults in the ECAM/EICAS which is mitigated by the SOP philosophy. But what happens when you're faced with an issue which the aircraft designers have not anticipated? That's where you need experience and flexibility - something that is missing from the modern syllabi. It's incumbent on us instructors to vary the emergencies we simulate away from resolution by the 'standard' solution. When we think back to problems we've had in the past , how many have been resolved by SOPs. I would guess very few. In the last five years I have had four major issues on Airbus types. Not one of these was resolved by the ECAM drills. It required experience and systems knowledge to get the aircraft back into a safe state.