Yes, and thats a very purist flight simmers point of view. I take the same attitude ....its about learning, discovery, gaining a taste and sense of the real aviation environment (and technology history in this case).
There is another category of users I realise, not "pure flight simmers", but more airline enthusiasts and plane spotters. They experience aviation through visits to their home airports and actual flights on real aircraft as passangers (usually with family 😉 ). Their passion is to understand things like the exact aircraft model used by their favourite airline for each specific route, the route schedules, parking gates, exact flight levels used etc.
For them flight simming is about replaying for themselves these exact same real world flights with the "correct" liveries and models .....that is what "realism" means to this kind of user.
So we have this constant conflict between the two types of flight simmers, conflict about what is essential to be "realistic', and conflict about the priorities for app development....