I am a mere private pilot and shall not attempt at being superb or wise, but I learned to adjust pitch to control airspeed and throttle to control sink. This works perfectly for me, even at bumpy, very short grass airfields.
I have a tendency at pulling power early, arriving VERY low at the threshold, making for safe landings. (Scared a bus driver once). Even at my home airport's hard surface (practically infinite) runways, I arrive just above the runway light poles. An instructor has reprimanded me for this. Yep, one day I may be caught by windshear and land before the threshold, but I follow the POH's speeds. So it be.
I have used the same techique in MS flightsim for heavy aircraft like the 747, and have discovered that landing a 747 is just like cooking ! Whatever you do won't have any effect till in 45 seconds or so. So, it's about compensating for that, which is exactly what such pilots do (me knowing from sitting in back and listening). Full throttle for 10 secs, and then wait and see the result. Once you're good at it, it's automagic.
To widen this, an approach is like cooking. You need to plan in advance to have everything fall into place at a specific time. A pilot starts backwards, thinking about what she'll need in the final phase. A cook has everything lined up, because she knows that it'll be busy around the "climax".
I'd be interested in any intelligent replies on this, as this is the way i fly and cook. Realise where you'll be in 10 mins and make sure for that. Anything that can be done now, do it.
Now, where is my beer....