Yes would definitely try and find into wind runway depending on conditions first. At least a little allowance on drift on landing.
Usually in the sim if direct law usually fairly typical winds of 10kts across are given, so normally large thrust variations aren’t required so your not fighting against pitch/power couple too much.
If it is very gusty and you decide to go manual thrust depending on the failure would it be better in terms of controllability to go selected speed with the max VAPP+15 or leave it managed speed? You really want to re-trim as less as possible especially with the trim not quite as to hand as the B737.