As many have said before, an excellent set of questions Tom and a fairly predictable set of answers from Joshua Howard.
While I agree with that statement regarding the "bulk" of the customers, I would imagine that a lot of people would be interesting in performing take-offs and landings in big jets. I know I certainly did when I started using flight sims. Having added the "skip to waypoint" option, and actively encouraging missions and landing challenges, surely this would cater for all tastes. If you want to start "cold and dark" you have the option to follow the interactive check lists (one of the really nicely implemented features in my opinion). If not, hit ctrl-e or whatever the key combination is to start engines, and away you go.