First a King Air now a Conquest, both seemingly some sort of engine related event (on face value). Just this year.
Wouldn't surprise me if things change. If they do, hopefully industry will be heavily involved and help make a good plan (rather than sitting back and then whinging about the changes).
I love sim training. But it won't be easy to implement. If it's left to CASA alone it would probably cripple industry. There's plenty of operators out there, there's a few people building fixed base and motion synthetic devices that are a lot cheaper than the full-on simulators. Everyone should get together to look at a way for getting better cost-effective, beneficial trainers approved and in use for initial and recurrent training. Whilst they may not need to be full flight sims, there is still a lot of benefit to be had from a fixed base, type specific (to your operation) trainer.