Bryna,
Always be sure to take the sim with a grain of salt large enough to choke on. I used to form opinions of aircraft in the real world from the sim, until I discovered major discreapencies between the same airplane from two different software vendors. Duh! Should have known!
Also as Americans (you are, yes?) we have this stupid linear thinking programmed into us. This manifests in the general thinking that less of a good thing is bad and less of a bad thing is good, etc. The world doesn't always follow that model!