Maybe I'm too dumb, but I don't get it. To me I am flying around he universe, and the crew will probably be an avatar-like simulacrum. If your perception is different that's your issue. The passion with which you argue your point almost makes it seem like a fact but it isn't. It's merely your perception which is, after all the thing you bring to the 'game'..Indeed, and unfortunately FD are now doing all they can to remind us of that fact - having previously tried to straddle the simulation genre too (with no small amount of success I might add). The game used to be about you flying around the galaxy in a space ship, creating your own story. In VR you could actually believe you were there.
The way this "multi crew" has been implemented completely breaks that fourth wall. And that's a real shame.
Fly safe cmdrs