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Again: the resources, the effort needed to create and sustain such a massive simulation just for fun, belong to civilization of so high advancement, that it renders the idea impossible.
Beings being able to do it would be able to bypass any stage of infancy or childhood, because it'd be obsolete and pointless for them.
We, human beings, can simulate worlds more complicated than the real one. It doesn't have to be like The Matrix. It could be like Dwarf Fortress. We wouldn't know if we are the simulation because it would always seem real and complex to us, even if all the creatures running the simulation see are numbers/text.
No, we can't.
We can't even simulate less complicated worlds, but so alien that they follow entirely different "natural laws" to our own.
Dwarf Fortress is ridiculously primitive in comparison to our reality.
how do you know the motives of something like that enough to know what's pointless?
Because that's how evolution works in intelligent species, or at least should - it leaves behind everything that's no longer needed.
...?
If it's a simulation all the laws of physics and so on that you're basing these theories on might not even exist outside the simulation.
And you have absolutely zero clue what such a being would find interesting or pointless.
You can't simulate a massive environment so alien to your own that they have nothing in common. You could answer "of course I can", but all your arguments for that would be Russel's Teapot.