Personally having flown in Australia and overseas, I would rather the feeder fix time. At least you have some idea where you stand in the sequence then and can plan an efficient descent.
There's plenty of pilots out there who don’t know how to manage their energy very well either. They’re normally the ones who are doing 160kts at 15 miles stuffing up the sequence for everyone else. If they tried that at Hong Kong they’d be taken off the approach!