It isn’t short-sighted just because it says that something you want isn’t as easy to implement as adding a few sliders to the menu. As a matter of fact, asking for additional complexity before the sim is in optimal state is what I’d call short-sighted.
And this sim has some of the most extensive customization options in the whole industry. So this argument is pretty meaningless.
By this logic, developers should add nearly infinite sliders and options, increasing the complexity of testing builds exponentially and also increasing the chances of introducing more issues.
Adding further complexity is detrimental to fixing what needs to be fixed in an already complex product.
The easiest way to battle the negative crowd is to gradually fix the issues (which adding more options and complexity would inevitably and factually hinder as I explained above) and ban those who are unconstructive in their negativity.