After adding the SXA module, according to the Installation Guide for SXA, you need to manually create cores in Solr for "sitecore_sxa_master_index" and "sitecore_sxa_web_index" indexes and update the patch files so that indexes look at the corresponding cores.
Adding this SIM feature will allow you to automatically add indexes without having to do it manually.
Valid for version: SIM 1.18.0
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