Um, they do? Endless simulator drills of various emergency scenarios is a large part of becoming a pilot and staying certified.

Here, no pilot had any simulator training for the new MAX. Because Boeing was selling the planes as the "same as old ones, no training needed." It seems Boeing also claimed up to just a few days ago that the simulator training is still not going to be needed for the MAX, just the "one hour iPad" game.

Yes, normally.

But a whole lot of social and political engineering was put into ensuring that simulator drills of emergency scenarios related to this system would not be part of any pilot's training.

And if training for this scenario in a MAX-specific simulation was recommended/required then Boeing wouldn’t sell many planes because that would mean buying simulator time and retraining your existing 737 pilots.

For specific training to be reqired I assume it would need to be made a different certification entirely? Is that even a plausible scenario that this could change?