There seems little point in performance engineers going to all the technical and regulatory trouble to ensure the runway analysis is valid in terms of obstacle clearance when the company policy is dictated by ops management that the pilot must disregard obstacle clearance requirements in favour of checklist reading priorities. Because that is exactly what happens when the obstacle directed third segment is thrown out of the window simply to satisfy checklist actioning.
Have pilots lost basic flying ability skills so much in todays automation environment that policy makers feel that the pilots cannot be trusted to do two things at once ie fly the aeroplane in level flight as well as actioning checklists?