YMMV / PC Building Simulator

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• Scrappy Mechanic: Component lockdown, in which you're not allowed to change out certain components. This tend to cause a lot of issues with the 3DMark tasks as the player may choose to slap in a second GPU, only to find that they can't do that due to PSU or motherboard limitations. And they can't change the corresponding components to bend things to their needs.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guys: The handful of "justices" who play the game who declare that giving the customer inferior parts during a repair job is "cheating". The worse thing is that the developers listen to these people (see They Changed It, Now It Sucks! below). Bad enough the the customers cheat you first more than often by paying less than what it actually takes to fix the machine, and sometimes the machine even comes with not-fully-compatible parts installed (see Violation of Common Sense below) and you can't do anything to change that after they put in the "anti-cheat" measure and due to the "component lockdown" mechanic. The game has practically been made no longer fun to a number of players.
• That One Level: The 3DMark tasks. A lot of players hate them because they tend to cause money hemorrhage by means of players going with trial and error, and ending up spending exponentially more than the payout. Also, each 3DMark task takes a lot of time to run. That said, at least one interactive guide to 3DMark now exists and is a big help, but its numbers can be a tad higher than in the game.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The change to the game that repair tasks now need identical replacement components has upset some players, especially since it may go hand in hand with Violation of Common Sense below and the player wants to set things right.
• Violation of Common Sense: While you can use a Skylake CPU in a Kaby Lake motherboard, it makes absolutely no sense to do so, nor are there any benefits in doing so. And yet you'll come across these kinds of setups in the game. Encountering these kinds of builds in repair tasks tends to drive particularly micromanagement-savvy players mad, especially since the component lockdown and the alteration to repair tasks render them unable to "right" the wrong by changing the motherboard or the CPU to match brands.

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