bill fly,
That's another excellent example of why 'one-size doesn't fit all' at all airports at all times.
The current 'stabilized approach' guidance was primarily driven by 'misadventures' in thrust control and not bank excursions....and whose to say at any moment exactly where 'normal bracketing' becomes 'abnormal bracketing'. In the past we used to train circling at altitudes below 1000', with turns done 15 seconds beyond the abeam to accommodate the visibility minimums, resulting in roll-outs inside 1 mile, with maybe room for one reversal in the event of an overshot centerline. If taught properly and flown precisely in line with the training guidance it was generally doable. But you also tried to give trainees the room to determine what they could cope with and what they would recognize in the future as requiring 'conservative' judgement and not worth attempting.
For better or worse, a lot of those options are not available anymore...I always avoided the 'policy' level and just adhered to whatever guidance was in place.....but there are still airports in the CONUS & Alaska where if you roll-out at 500' and 1 and 2/3 mile out VMC, you'll be in the terrain.