I dunno about "everyone else" but for little plane military folks like me, any sim evals would be basically pulled out of our nether regions.
"Do your normal flow" -- What's a flow?
"Just preflight however your usually preflight" -- Ok, where does the ejection seat pin go and how do I give the hand signal for my wingman to start his/her engine?

Turn everything off and then turn everything on doesn't translate well from an F-teen to a 737. So I was personally glad I didn't have to do a sim check, since I would have had to do it completely cold and falling back literally 100% on pitch/power/trim basics because almost nothing crossed over, and the entire sim check would end up being hand-flown in a plane I'd never flown before. Not a good look unless you want me to demo simulator aerobatics, in which case yea I could probably do that without an over-G or overspeed just by looking out the window. Going from a plane with either no autopilot or a rudimentary altitude/heading hold autopilot, tacan only, with a hud, to a 737 sim check wouldn't really tell anyone very much except my ability to BS my way through something I was making up as I went along. And that's what the scenario event walk-through was for.