.. food for thought, is it not .... ?
As a minor comment, the Vmcg CL deviation limit varies depending on design standard but the thrust of the argument is still more than valid ....
When it is all going reasonably OK, any half-competent pilot can stay somewhere near the centreline .... in a critical failure situation, competence may have not too much to do with the outcome if the aircraft is in the grass before the pilot can capture the initial excursion .. especially with the V1-go typical mindset's making an above V1 cut very difficult for the non-certification minded pilot ...