After a year of flying, I get closer to that point, but purely based on experience gained in real life, not simulators).
Probably because you spent more time in the aircraft than you did in the sim?
The simulator allows you work on your scan,and set up your method how to deal with a crosswind,possibly a decreasing crosswind as you go down,hence a possible quick change in track required to maintain the centerline..the requirement to focus inside and outside....
The feel of the pants i believe is only a benefitial aid during low visibility,poor lighted runways manual landings...the rest is all about scan,looking outside including for the flare (pitch up),rudder input to straight up the nose and sink rate the rate at which one should decrease the thrust...
A croswind requires in general a longer landing distance as the pilot decrabs and the thrust stays in a tad longer...