Second Thoughts.
My diatribe on who does what, where and when, was based on established practice and the worthy pursuit of excellence "in my day".
For all I know, the push for fewer and fewer bodies on the ground and more and more automation, may have got rid of the enclosure and the observer.
It is a long time since 1997, when I last knew what I was talking about.
Apart from establishing records of slight value to man or beast, perhaps the arbitrary accuracies sought are meaningless: what is a couple of knots, a 3 degree wind veer/back, a decimal point of a degree C., a tenth of a millibar [or whatever they are called] in the scheme of things?
A latter day heretic wonders out loud.