I get what you're aiming at here. What you're describing is a VA that tests you to a high level in certain categories, but has pilots that can barely land an airplane. While others answering this have described the technical problems of measuring landing rates in a ACARS system, I'd say that it often works better than you'd think. At Eastern Airlines Virtual, when we used the VAFS system, it had a few anomalies that resulted in positive vertical speed at landing, usually we had reasonably accurate data. That means that what was posted by the system closely resembled what I last saw on the vertical speed indicator. When I was the Washington hub manager, I was very pleased with the smooth landings that the pilots were pulling off, and was willing to help those who weren't pulling it off with whatever advice I could give. After all, it couldn't be much fun, I reasoned, for a pilot to constantly rack up damages to the plane. With the assigned flight system we had, it was more involved for me, and I hope they're better virtual pilots for it. Of course, we have to realize that this is the experience of flying, filtered through a computer, often the cheapest one we could get away with.
On the idea that there's too many VAs out there, you may be right. But everyone has a right to try, and you never know what might succeed. Everyone has an idea, and many want to be the CEO of a VA. In a way, the VA with no pilots beyond the founders is like throwing a party and no one coming. It's a sad thing to see, usually. Unless you're someone like lavochkin, who does one for his own records, and his own pleasure. He's right, joining a VA is an enhancement to flight simulation. I'd add that it can be a social experience, it can fire the imagination a bit. Novels have been written describing the story of one flight, or the career of a pilot (to describe advances in postwar air safety), or a crucial moment of a pilot's life. But if you don't enjoy the flying itself, what does any of it mean?
In the last year, the VA I've been part of for about ten years (hard to believe) has lost its longtime CEO, and the ACARS system we used all those years. The result is a bit more laid back, and the pilots get to fly what they want to. One thing we do that I prefer is that you can see if people are flying online from our front page. You know there's activity going on. As I'm typing this, four of our pilots are online. It doesn't matter to me if you have a pilot roster a mile long, if it consists of pilots who haven't flown with you for years. In fact, Eastern clears the deadwood off the roster regularly. But if a VA like that works for you, great.
In any case, I've toyed with this too long, and it's time to leave Charleston (where I last flew to with Eastern).