Netflix definitely does a better job than its competition but the encoding is not perfect as it is, lowering it for certain material would push me away. They generally do a better job with their original content as well. Mario movie(Universal) looked like ass. Damsel (Netflix)looked quite good. Extraction 2 looked really good.
I wouldn’t say it’s an insane amount of time in the simulator. That probably averages less than 15 hours a year; however, there’s many hours spent preparing for the time in the simulator which is what really makes emergency procedures rote.