Given the scarcity of hours (certainly in the Herc world) these days, I think you shouldn't be grumbling about the number of sims you're having to do. Civvy flying "currencies" aren't really an issue as they fly us as often as they can; if we're not flying we're just an expense.
Whilst the sim has its limitations it's still a valuable tool to keep you on top of your game, especially when the system is too broken to give you actual flying. The problem comes when people can't interpret the BCRs or apply a modicum of common sense to them. They become the basis of all subsequent boards of enquiry to the extent that folk get returned from Det (where they are more "current" than a current thing) to do a 6 monthly Windshear Go-around. That's just crass and serves only to highlight a system that's scared of itself rather than one that supports itself.
Some of the BCRs are fair enough, especially some of the procedure based Tac ones. Others are far too frequent and just become yet more self created obstacles with which the system cripples itself.