AirRabbit
Thank you for your excellent posts, we rarely get ones of such quality.
I spent many years as an IRE/TRE on the three aircraft types I mentioned at the start of this thread. I was also lucky enough to fly with test-pilots to evaluate simulators and trying to get one in particular, in the 1970s, to fly like the real aircraft after training pilots had tried to improve it - but hadn't!
Your knowledge of level D simulators is vastly superior to mine but I share your confidence in their ability to provide good training for cross-wind landings. However, training at or after the stall is a different matter and I would very much like to hear your views on the subject.