Life is full of compromises. And aircraft performance, as taught in typical ground schools, is full of hypocrisy and gapping holes. It is, IMO, bordering on delusional to think that the sharp pencil derived performance data is worth anything when the winds are gusting to 40 Knots. In high wind conditions I suspect that even crayon derived data would be an exercise in wishful thinking.
So I sit and ground school and behave while screen heights and “guaranteed performance” is talked about. And then when I go to work and arrive at PIK I fly the airplane. A straight track, no side loads on the gear and a few degrees of bank into the wind are all good. Drift, side loads and upwind wing lift are all bad. My view is to do what you have too in order to make the former happen and avoid the latter.
This increasing practice of sacrificing aircraft control for hypothetical performance issues is a very poor trade.