Helimut or whatever you call yourself.....who is John ? If by any chance you are referring to me i think you will find that a LOT of owners and operators agree with me re EOL,s but they are the ones paying the bills. I assume you either do not own your own and therefore dont pay the insurance ( or have a robbo ...so dont bother !!)
ps I possibly had my cpl and cfi before you could climb over the skids .........and possibly even a real life engine failure before you did yr ppl
however i totally agree that the No1 point is to actually get into auto without rotor speed loss etc the last 10 ft is the least important .
I also agree that a poor auto to a good spot is worse than a good auto to a poor spot.