Is the sim genre dead?

Gentlemen, I am a new member of the subsim community, although I play SH III since 2007, and after I've discovered GWX, I think that SH III has finally become playable. Regarding SH5, it was a disappointment for me, because I've hoped they will not make the same mistakes they made in the previous titles of the series. But one thing surprised me here as well: Why there is such a large amount of people that are calling SH series "sub-SIMULATOR"? Because none of the titles of the series are simulators, in my opinion. DCS: Black Shark - Ka50 (Russian attack helicopter simulator) can be called a simulator, with almost hundreds of key combination to issue commands, with a manual consisting of a few hundreds pages of reliable accurate technical information, a simulator-game when you must do at least five things only to start the engine of the rotors. So that's why I don't understand why there are some people that put SH series (nice, relaxing hybrid type games, but only with all the mods that people are making) in the "simulator" category, because I have the feeling that SH series are simulators exactly in the way I am the Pope. And I am definitely not.
I don't know, but I think that the owner of this forum and the moderators knows what a simulation game is and that they may instruct the newbies around here in making the difference between a RPG-Arcade game (SH5) and a simulator one (Aces Of The Deep). Considering SH5 a simulator game and seeing the game as one can cause a lot of disappointment for the simulators fan base.