Beardy
Not true as I’ve flown a fair few out of necessity.
Zurich landing 28 was and probably still is a 14 cloud break followed by circling. Oporto visual circuit from the north saved at least five minutes..as did in the old days Marseille and Nice without having to fly the whole procedure over the sea - short cut intercepting FA inside the marker. Even did a visual circuit in a DC10 from 10,000 ft+ downwind at Caracas..saved a tonne plus and five minutes.
And more importantly met an airbus pilot who had multiple flight control system failures after getting airborne at Heathrow..declared emergency and flew a quick circuit (if he had followed the checklists he would have been left without any flight controls).