If none of the flight deck operatives have actually hand flown their craft at max AUW for the cruise altitude then are they really qualified so to do?
If experienced pre-RVSM skipper is in the bog, it’s the low hours inexperienced RHS occupant who has to sort the problem.
Yes, few of us have had a real EFATO but we cope using the right sim techniques so I won’t take that as a valid argument. And how often is this scenario practised in the sim? Probably never since initial type rating.
However, every day the ‘frame is in this hostile and dangerous environment for hours on end close to coffin corner and the crop of LOC at altitude accidents possibly had such unfamiliar “feel” attributes which made life more difficult or impossible.
Tin hat on......