If engine failures at V1 or on missed approach were more common, there would be an unacceptable number of aircraft accidents due to insufficient regard for extended flight path.
After 37 years of military, airline & various odd overseas airliner contracts, my opinion is that few operators or pilots pay more than lip service to worst case engine out flight path. If the pilot can hack a standard V1 cut and a quick radar circuit to a 15 NM final with a position freeze on downwind, they think they've done it! Maybe throw in a couple of no brainer emergency turn procedures. Handling skills? No contest, must meet requirements. Thinking? Just demonstrate the required procedures. We can get a satisfactory write-up and all go home and do it all again in 6 months.
Nobody ever intentionally forced me to consider the extended flight path. Even when one new destination airfield grid MORA was around 27,000ft, there was no discussion / memo / anything.
Nobody wants to rock the boat. Anyway, we can always find a combination of circumstances that contributed to the accident. How many investigators will be critical of their own employer? Who will sacrifice their promotion by pointing the finger at their own authorities or their own major airlines?
Why won't this subject be a wake-up call for the majority of aviation authorities, operators & pilots? Many hundreds of deaths can result from failure to act.
" status quo good - me like!"