I have a lot of sympathy with the majority of the posts here, and am grateful that the consensus nowadays seems to be to condemn this sort of overload training as useless as best, and damaging to skills and confidence at worst.
Rostermouse. With all due respect to your carefully written comment where you say (highlighted) you have sympathy with the majority of the posts here. I suspect that is nothing more than a motherhood statement to prepare we readers for a mouthful of regulatory gobblydook.
Your last comment "The expectations and experiences of the contributors on this thread reassure me that as an industry we are heading in the right direction here, nevertheless"
On the contrary. I read all the posts as just the opposite.