My best instructors/examiners always were thorough but fair. You didn't get away lightly but you always knew that you would be treated fairly like any professional should.
One of them once said to me that every sim check should be a learning experience (including for the examiner). The one thing that he didn't want the students to learn was that the TRE was a
pr*ck.
Any idiot can find ridiculous scenarios to throw at any pilot and we all have a breaking point. What does that prove? Only that the TRE is such a
pr*ck. I don't want those kind anywhere near good professional pilots doing their best in a very trying environment.
Smokey and Centaurus have it absolutely right. It's nice to know that there are still lots of good professionals around. Keep it up guys!