As a student pilot, I now know that after an approach turns bad it's safer to carry on and try and land whatever!! Who was the first person to believe that a 'go-around' was a safe way of dealing with a bad approach?? And how did they convince us that this method was the best procedure??
At this early stage of my flying/airline career I'll take these ideas on board, and hopefully no more people will 'feel like they are going to die'.
Threshold or nothing....