What I was trying to do was generate a debate, see what others think, etc etc.
I am well aware that I am not alone in thinking that the ritual performance has had its day and achieves nothing.
If it works for people who fly infrequently, or are on their fist flights, that's fine and it wouldn't matter a damn that others may have heard it upwards of 5,000 times.
But it doesn't, and the problem is that the box marked "tell the passengers what to do" is ticked, when in practice we don't do that at all well.