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Vessbot
(However it can not be done before those things, for obvious reasons)
And those are?
Same as checking the speedbrakes retracted. To my uninformed opinion doing that first does no harm but is unnecessary before the ND input.
Having the choice of good, better and optimal, the procedure designers must take the last one.
Really, if there was a better place for F1 or SPD brakes it would had been there.
The printed procedure is linear by necessity. Also it is compiled with a fallible human in mind, assuming the pilot might remember only some of it and execute it imperfectly.
There are critical actions and supportive tasks, listed in order of priority.
To illustrate, certain airline had a nice PA for passangers after the PIC's 'Brace for impact call'
"Heads down, stay down - grab your ankles!" Shuffling that order devaluates it.