Flaps and Brakes
Remember flying often with one particular Captain. He would not use auto-brakes unless weather/ RWY lenght, conditions or combination thereof dictated their use.
His technique was very simple. Use full RWY lenght available. Touch down in the TD zone on speed, use reverse at high speed adhering to the schedule reaching idle by 60kts and only when in the low speed regime would he apply brakes.
While taxying, keep the feet off the pedals, let the speed built up and then brake to a slow speed. No more than 20 kts to avoid tire sidewall heating during long taxy.
Even when flying in Saudi Arabia and relatively short sectors I never saw brake temps go above the top of the "Green" to very low "Amber". Heard the same from most of the ground engineers and others that flew with the guy.
Flaps 30 landing are standard landing flaps with Air Atlanta. There are some that use flaps 25. What is better, well both have their advantages.