The well known secret to reliable TriStar maintenance (in my personal opinion, anyway) was the mandated used (by the respective airline concerned) of the FIRM manual.
With this method of fault isolation and reporting, snags could well be easily fixed, with minimal ground time.
I worked for one small carrier whose director of maintenance thought the FIRM idea was hogwash...and quite predictably, they had a huge dispatch reliability problem.
They also had missing serviceable tags in many cases, and obtained quite critical inspection by aviation authorities as a result.
Obi, the flare maneuver in the TriStar resulted in a deck angle change of about three degrees.
The approach however, was quite a constant angle, thanks to DLC.
It really does work as advertised.