Class-based Sim definitions retain all class members which are SimAttrs and drop all others. Non-SimAttr-valued fields can nonetheless be handy for defining intermediate values upon which the ultimate SimAttrs depend, such as the a_path field in the example above.
This is also true of Module and Bundle, and it's not clearly stated anywhere.
https://github.com/dan-fritchman/Hdl21#spice-class-simulation
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ModuleandBundle, and it's not clearly stated anywhere.