Bring back the three-monthly sim routine! No, I didn't like it either,
That is an interesting comment of: "No, I didn't like it either".
If pilots dislike flying in the simulator there must be a good reason. Is it because the check pilots or simulator instructors are too aggressive or demand the impossible to meet their own legendry (in their own mind) flight standards? It is a shame that some check pilots adopt that attitude and they should be removed from those duties and re-trained themselves. That never happens of course due to the hierarchy. One method to fix that problem is to ask the instructor to personally slip into the seat and demonstrate his "skill" to those who watch with interest. It rarely happens of course in case he made himself look foolish.
Back to the point. Check pilots in simulators need to learn a basic principle of being an instructor and that is training is the purpose of simulator flying with an occasional requirement for "testing." That way, pilots will actually look forward to their recurrent training rather than dread it. They will come out of the simulator more confident and in most cases, better pilots.