I can see perfectly well where you're coming from, but I still disagree with you -- it's a training objective, it's the safest place to do it, it's a manoeuver simulating a critical emergency where the other option is stepping out of the airframe and letting it do its own thing...
What, pray tell, would be your solution to a simulated engine emergency over 8/8ths cloud in a fast and pointy airframe?
-D