FD, I agree with your views; my devilment looked for the detail.
An objective was to test the reasoning behind some of the procedures, how people think about remote possibilities, and the possibility that in such situations there is no unique answer.
A conclusion could be to decide which pilot will have the better detection and awareness, if not necessarily the better judgement, then who acts, when, in a rare time critical situation.
I would not challenge any particular operation without knowledge of their reasoning behind it, but concern remains about many unsatisfactory outcomes when apparently good plans and procedure exist.
It doesn't matter who does it, provided it is done as well as possible in the situation.
The situation, context is everything; focus on that.
Re Steve, monitored approach, we have corresponded; agreement in part, but again it depends on context.