Free (starter) version of ModelSim-Altera can't be lauched

It is not, at least in my Ubuntu 16.04 installation of Quartus Prime Lite. Yet, regardless of the OS environment, I find it somewhat strange that, on the one hand, ModelSim-ASE is the only model simulator installed in the free edition, and indeed this is the one selected in the EDA settings, while, on the other hand, running the simulation requires a directory path for the ModelSim rather than ModelSim-ASE executable. I think this is a sort of inconsistency that ought to be fixed in some future release of Quartus.