It does affect me when these people try to influence developers to follow their inane beliefs of what a "real sim" should be. A good sim has lots of options in every area. It wouldn't penalize the player for not going "lol max leetness = all realism options maxed".
Maybe i've just been to too many game forums these days?
Somebody did once say that forums are the worst thing to happen to game development since the 83 crash.
This wouldn't be such a problem to me if developers didn't seem to be listening to them. I can't seem to find a problem with adding more gameplay features and options to any sim. For some reason, plenty of people do.