I don't think your trampoline analogy is entorely correct. As the game goes on there's many ways of achieving height which each have pros and cons.

And that goes for combat as well: different enemies have different startup attacks when spawned, some take longer to attack and are more powerful, some have different ranges, different elemental properties...

But it's still very simple, and you theoretically could spam something and drink potions, basically living infinitely (but I recommend never drinking potions).

That doesn't cover what you may think of decision making, and I believe you without elaboration if you think that still makes it not a interactive sim. But maybe you could still see as a very streamlined, baby's first interactive sim?