h'mm you are talking about costs and access you have no idea about.
You also don't have a clue about the amounts of cash these kids are fronting up for training these days.
Some of the fo's out there don't have enough money to eat and they are the lucky ones because they are logging hours.
The ones that manage to get a chance at a sim check for a job are going to use everything available to get that job.
If it means using XP against your advice and everybody else's advice that is exactly what they are going to do without a second thought.
The P2F crowd don't need this software as they will be paying through the nose to do a type rating and will use the TRTO's CBT package.