Yeah, before we had the “adaptive” gearing strategy approach figured out - re-simming every 10 ilvl or so was our recommendation. That kinda… sucks to do though, which is why we came up with the new gearing strategies - which are sort of a ton of pre-simulated strats and then some fancy logic to weave them together.
The current defaults are really the most useful now. They will automatically change as you change talents as well, so the advice is always relevant to your current setup.
I think the entire community has gone sim-crazy. It’s so easy/cheap now to do a LOT of sims that it’s easier for theorycrafters to just tell people to sim their stuff and do what comes out highest. It is our opinion that the best (proper?) use of simulation results has been lost in the shuffle.
This post I made was a pretty good summary of how we think simulation should be used: