FullWings, you observe two important points.
First in simulation; either the situations are not sufficiently challenging, or that we behave differently in a simulator than we might in reality. Probably some of each.
Simulators are not reality; pilots in reality may not meet the imagined reality in SOPs.
Second, that the technology in more recent aircraft reflects what is now taught and accepted as good practice.
Investigations into incidents in older aircraft should consider these later standards. It would be impracticable to expect that older aircraft be modified to the latest standard, but at lest the errant config alert could be improved to work as designed.